The first South Georgia leases: Compañia Argentina de Pesca and the South Georgia Exploring Company Limited

Walton, David W.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7103-4043. 1982 The first South Georgia leases: Compañia Argentina de Pesca and the South Georgia Exploring Company Limited. Polar Record, 21 (132). 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400018982

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Abstract/Summary

South Georgia, at present governed as a Dependency of the Falkland Islands, has an interesting history of human activity extending back nearly two centuries. The sealers who visited the island in considerable numbers in the 18th and 19th centuries (Jones, 1973) almost certainly left gangs of men on the island for considerable periods, but not until the 20th century were permanent settlements established there. Published accounts of the initial stages of this colonisation (Matthews, 1931; Christie, 1951) contain various important errors, and give only the simplest outline of an interesting political problem. A more accurate account of some of these events has recently been published (Tonnessen and Johnsen, 1982). Material preserved in the Falkland Islands Government's (FIG) archives at Port Stanley has allowed a detailed account to be built up of this important period of South Georgia's history.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400018982
ISSN:	0032-2474
Date made live:	25 Jul 2019 10:20 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524524

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