Talk:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Is there a Bird Island in both South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands? While talking about SG, the page claims that the Antarctic Survey have a post on Bird Island. It also states that the SSI are uninhabited. Fair enough. But then later on we're told that the SSI include a Bird Island. If it's the same Bird Island, then all three facts cannot be true.
- Bird Island is off the northwest end of South Georgia, I'll update the article to remove the confusion. Orourkek 16:27, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)
How does an uninhabited area have a constitution?
Who ratified it and whom does it affect? Personnel serving at the scientific stations and summer tourists? Governance of an uninhabited territory would seem to be solely an executive function; it would hard to constitute a legislature or find a jury for a court (which would seem to be required as information states that it is a common law jurisdiction). Rlquall 02:03, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- South Georgia is essentially a dictatorship. It is ruled in its entirity by Howard Pearce, Governor of the Falkland Islands. This is, of course, not really a problem, since no-one except a few scientists live there. As for a 'constitution' - as far as I'm aware, the closest thing would be the "South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Order", an Order-in-Council, in 1985.
lost people
10 years ago 40 people were in a ship, the ship sunk and they had to live 3 months before english realised. kinda control they have
Inhabited or not?
A question above presupposes that SGSSI is uninhabited, but the article doesn't make that clear. Is there a permanent population of South Georgia, as there is of the Falklands, or are there only research stations, as on Antarctica? Either way, the article should be clearer about the issue. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 22:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
- I think it is generally accepted that a base, staffed by military, or science researchers, doesn't count as an inhabitation. That kind of temporary staff, don't count as inhabitants. That is the convention followed by the CIA fact book. -- Geo Swan 23:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
That's fine, but unless I missed something, the article never explicitly says there is no permanent settlement. I came to this article curious as to whether anyone actually lives permanently on the island, and got no answer until I followed the link to the CIA fact book. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 00:41, 2 September 2005 (UTC)