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South Sandwich Island [UK], Aug 28 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale struck the
South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday night.
The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown dependencies of the UK, and the UK overseas territories include Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Anguilla; British Antarctic Territory; Bermuda; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; St Helena and Dependencies (Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha); Turk and Caicos Islands; Pitcairn Island; and South Georgia and
South Sandwich Islands.
South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands (UK Overseas Territory)
Al-Jaafari renewed Syria's support for Argentina's rights to the Malvinas, South Georgia,
South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas so as to ensure respect for the principle of territorial integrity of Argentina and end this form of British colonial settlement in those islands which closely resembles the Israeli settlement in the Palestinian and Syrian territories.
He undertook the swim to urge the government to protect South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands, a UK Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic, which supports wildlife including seals, penguins, sea birds and blue whales.
Environmentalists are urging the United Kingdom to establish the
South Sandwich Islands on the edge of Antarctica as a sanctuary to protect one of the earth's last wilderness areas.
Argentina and the UK went to war over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic - the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands.
The quake's epicenter was 61 miles (98 km) northeast of Visokoi Island, part of the
South Sandwich Islands archipelago, a British overseas territory.
All this technology can be undone if the weather is bad - as it was in Antarctica to film the world's largest colony of Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in the
South Sandwich Islands.
He successfully completed the first west-east circumnavigation in high latitudes, charted Tonga and Easter Island, discovered New Caledonia in the Pacific, the
South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia in the Atlantic.