South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved on 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The 2 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 2 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.
8 parts of South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 56.7°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 39.2°W–25.2°W, 60.0°S–53.5°S.
Disputed areas involving South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
2 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.
S. Georgia · Geo subunit
Admin. by U.K.; Claimed by Argentina
S. Sandwich Is. · Geo subunit
Admin. by U.K.; Claimed by Argentina
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.
Official alerts
no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Grytviken, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:19 AM · sunset 6:20 PM12h 01m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
King Edward Point, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:19 AM · sunset 6:20 PM12h 01m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- SGSuncited
- Driving side
- leftuncited
- Mains voltage
- No source assessed yet
- Capitals
- GrytvikenKing Edward Pointuncited
- Official language
- Englishuncited
- Plug type
- No source assessed yet
- Official website
- gov.gs ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
- Population
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- GDP
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- GDP per capita
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- Life expectancy at birth
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- Exports
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
- Imports
- Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in Latin.
World Heritage Sites
Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.
Emergency numbers
- 999
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Currency
GBP
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.