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Sandwich Islands are severally at the other three corners. The position in relation 

 to these other islands may be defined as follows : — 



From South Georgia (Leith Harbour) to Port Stanley, Falkland Islands is about 



890 miles in a direction N. 80° W. 

 From South Georgia (Leith Harbour) to the South Sandwich Islands is under 



400 miles in a direction S. 67° E. 

 From South Georgia (Leith Harbour) to the South Orkney Islands is under 



600 miles in a direction S. 30° W. 



The position is more definitely fixed by the latitude and longitude of Cape 

 Saunders at the north-west entrance to Stromness Bay and Leith Harbour, and that 

 of King Edward's Point, Cumberland Bay, on which is situated the meteorological 

 station of the Argentine Government. 



Their positions are as follows : — 



Cape Saunders— Lat. 54° 9' S., long. 36° 32' W. 



King Edward's Point— Lat. 54° 18' 15" S., long. 36° 26' 15" W. 



The position of the observation point at the head of Moltke Harbour, Royal Bay, 

 used by the German Meteorological Expedition of 1882, has also been carefully 

 determined and found to be : — 



Lat. 54° 30' 53" S., long. 36° 5' 44" W. 



The central position of the island, and its most prominent and elevated feature, 

 is the crest of Mount Paget, rising 8383 feet above sea-level, and overlooking 

 Cumberland Bay, about 10 miles south of King Edward's Point. 



Physical Character of South Georgia. 



From whatever direction the island is approached its coasts are rock bound, and 

 more or less precipitous. No open beach or detrital flat exists anywhere on its 

 outer margin. There is a valley about a mile wide in Moraine Flat, which runs up 

 from the enclosed south-west rim of Cumberland Bay, near King Edward's Cove, for 

 about 4 miles to an ice-field and glacier. There are also several patches of detrital 

 flats and moraines, which probably occupy hollows scooped out by glacial action. 

 Leith Harbour is one of these ; Husvik Harbour, where the Bucentaur Whaling 

 Company is located, is another ; Elsie Harbour and Adventure Harbour, on the north- 

 west corner of the island, originally scooped out by ice into one channel, have been 

 separated into two safe refuge anchorages by morainic detritus blocking up several 

 miles of its centre. 



The coast, always rock bound, has generally a stern and rugged appearance, not 

 unlike parts of the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Along the north-east coast, 

 running from north-west to south-east, the outer escarpments are succeeded inland by 



