Tag: South Georgia & the South Sandwich Island

• Wednesday, February 19th 2020 - 06:48 UTC

  Modern, habitat restored South Georgia recalls Possession Day and James Cook in 1775

  

  Some 245 years and a month ago, James Cook, after 3 years at sea, took possession of South Georgia and claimed the land for His Britannic Majesty, King George the Third. On what must have been a routine summer’s day (January 17th) in the South-West Atlantic, the explorer described what he had discovered as a ‘land doomed by nature to perpetual frigidness’.