South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made up of South Georgia, by far the largest island, and a chain of smaller South Sandwich Islands about 700 kilometres to its southeast. The territory has a total land area of 3,903 square kilometres. The South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited and only a very small, non-permanent population lives on South Georgia, with no scheduled passenger flights or ferries, though cruise visits are increasingly popular. The United Kingdom claimed South Georgia in 1775 and the South Sandwich Islands in 1908, and the present territory was formed in 1985, having earlier been governed as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. Argentina disputes British sovereignty, a claim that fed into the 1982 Falklands War.