| Show fadde afat 0 V P 11 t T 4 inhabitants inhabitant of the th let 11 of 1 georgia or by III tha I 1 bo claty wa D C south georgia flue due cast t of cape cap horn earn in the south salt h allen atlantic 1 C onto ocean li is the typical outpost of th the e antarctic C as iceland 1 la of fit the arctic but it 1 la a much cb ile island ties than the latter thad nd ad in king it ita t tempering por a G gulf bloeam adf he has aeve eteen possible ot col tion but it it has no extensive 1 11 1 his s hh tory of it its own it b has a 1 place 1 c e in n the I 1 history of geographic tor far it was the first south polar land known to man and he waa found during the golden age of exploration and it litter let corm to be As an el bl dorado ot of seal met skits for bm brave th hankee allen skippers kip Der until the letter latter part of the dahl tenth beath century maps mapa of the world co corn am conly ty included conjectured ureal land joftes south of the known know coat nesta and ad labeled terra australia 1 in from fla time to time since the discovery of america vague PM of southern land had bad been brought to E europe eop op by ma marinero mariners marl nera who had hem been blown Bout bward 0 out at of at their course md and contemporary ha had held old persistent bopes for the disc dincov ery cry and exploitation of an austral at continent which might add second new world to the globe its in 1775 capt CAPIL james james cook corn con nander of H bif U a 8 resolution on a voyage in search of this terra in ca cornlia gaila lia vs a codle Cod lg along the coast a of as an tee ile covered island in latitude batt a iut rad sauth iatt 54 degrees so 30 aid minutes bouth the a 11 1 isle 1 had bad appeared unexpectedly lo in tile the path of the besot resolution imi and it was nas tha first allt 1 1 of the be disappoint ifor so nent in acore t are for mankind the discoverer on nas somewhat depressed on seeing a the b barren or bences neBB of the he new land whose whom lit rocky city shore 1 1 and 1 1 cliffs cliff caf of ile ice aero but gloomy au 7 guries 1 f ney or ft habitable territory lying still leaber ater the southern puts pule th the W itle of georgia referring to his blighted hope of a fair air antarctic land he be mid to judge of at trie the bulk by the sample amal it would not he be worth tile the discovery ft ho would have thought that an ls Is land of no greater extent than tilts tills situated between the litti latitude lude of 54 64 degrees degree and ad 55 degrees should 1 in the very height of aa a aimer in erl be e la in a 2 man fin Is ner wholly hey il ave covered it many a y fathoms tie deep wit will if floed fr own no A cook took po of the coun try for ElIgI england nad and ad named it the isle of georgia unit end after afier ch charting arring the coast he proceeded ro on an his hie I 1 tamona of 0 the th world arid south calugi as the lalund island came ca to be called was destined not to be 1 forgotten fin rg aten for far tile the ams tales of cup cap coln la cook I 1 it were are nine reading do dur fu ing 9 tile early years 6 of if american in dependence it may be that hi his word d ben BA bell beam 8 was the lure ion that flat started eted the first arsi fl aller follower ler in ID the wake of tile the resolution on certain it 1 Is that before the cl of the eighteenth century hold bold Y inee S inrI marinero mariners ma tIm fro from new lo 10 lon don bb b tunic adington kit in had ami other long laos 1 Is land ad an sound it ports poll a bad belm begun 1 to it reap tie die be eat of fur seals scale mi skins at south ganiea g when hen the supply of luera lucrative tise fu fur seals 1 ont first began to full tile the other amphibious mentioned by cook the we sea elephants forced to pay the coal 0 the th city beers acors the sea elephant 1 Is tile the lorg est at of seals Is and ad 1 Is Lly invested with blumb blubber r fiden allds as aa oil 11 lit tie I 1 inferior to the product pr adult of at the iton r wl whale ale he hene elephant hunt hicale ing became an importune important ind industry ry a at mist of it lie islands 1 in many any of Is hostile the il I eLles l hafi 1 had boon 1 and ad alb at 1 a boubli U georgia it still aslia its lava dw are am onlea absolute crotee fin tion be a e enforced atoned but 1 u I the tale isle of no human industry at th the bun ki en we ible Is not yet I 1 lit id ind find ha ta the ta latest amod oscr I 1 A tiu a doir 11 cairy 0 Y of ak I 1 1 ier egian caf een n 1 tears ag ago N seafarers e vikings at I 1 11 found a field unspoiled by the blood bloody of their ame abier lee lean andela in predecessors dela and they 1 hate I made ad south ge georgia igia the headquarters of the greatest gr esteRt whale adel fishery on an earth between igi 1910 ind and 19 liuo nc more r than whales t c representing a value iu of 1 roughly fitly fifty million of italian dollars I 1 have av a line been shot shot on an the offshore banks an and it town towed to on the hustling bustling who whaling 1 I AS stations of the laland in a single b ogle year am ea son mr of 1815 1018 it the b all G georgian eatch catch numbered whales are all mighty man though though south Geor Goo fela Is its cie are as mighty I 1 lily as these of anil and that there 1 is ample pie AT tl benca den that the island wo was farm formerly MY 1 completely pi C tely b burled by nn an icecap tho nhe T high ground of the interior into inc la eov ered end with ill on an everlasting neve which consolidate at the sources of all the to volleys ley t to 0 form tongues of ice fee most or of which extend td t clear into the sea AI ending it 1 j in abrupt walla ango T the one n 11 incomprehensible state statement cicat in A captain cook B account of south georgia 1 Is his emphatic te testimony thay that he saw no brook or edream along og alio III whole CORL coast certainly ratio he nibling formats tor renta are fl great impeded want to Pl Ogles a on teed and durin during 1 vis january thaws gleaming cascades tt elih ible from far at aea I 1 pour or fro froni the he ledoea edge of fit the coast bill hills the climate be of south georgia varies re relatively I 1 t ve 1 y I 1 little ittle throughout the yen year T the ll 11 e m mean e a annual A hot temperature temper atura is ve verr ry clone e to a the freeing point rod ond the h e sky 1 Is prevailingly overclouded over Ocrel clouded odil F february e b in IB the aarmon in month snow generally in the form of hat bard d III globa fin tar lar particles which effig the skin in like ilka hall inal fall falla I 1 in ever every I 1 mouth th end and ram rain R bud nd sleet fact storms are am both frequent an and d p prolonged ro longed during the 1 ummer er either rain in or snow it fial falig 0 on about anve liter of f the do daa of tile the whole hot year the greatest proportion of clear or avs la 16 in winter hot but ho vember nod ad december the springtime of the bouth CIA in world arid are am often made memorable by y a fell few e 1 Is da ans of if sunshine blue all kahe A on n rare cum m aft afternoons to of t january and february th the 0 jealous IC ce a king kin 9 la Is sometimes lulled to sleep deep he a hem aneter abla aa high as a 08 dar legreca I 1 t ahren helt a and boutu ge geor glo gia limit basic in a sparkling ilog cida calm only qu on buch h fleeting occasions is I 1 the iceo aut so buatte feeling if or of the glaciers glacier all absent mat from rom tb the land and wa sm has has 0 oceanic at climate south georgia ties has till an oceanic B as opposed to a continental ca climate 1 ate it t Is under the continual equa equalizing z in fluence duce of the sea and it thoroughly 0 ly lemon how much more arable to the production D of a yelled rom flora 1 11 a constantly tow low temperature per stare than seasonal cold of the se severest vereld kind owing to the same oceanic life to con editions the lead land animals ot of south geagia deai gfa are even re fewer thich the ver plants the there to la no indigenous dig chous ter re mammal put but rat ram hotels horses and reindeer min citer have been introduced lot achl iced and d are an thriving in a wild state 1 ahe I h a rata ram were probably first brought by sealing vessel a hundred ye year ao ld bot at not remarkable hie of ail R the A living ri things ings of booth georgia perhaps are the ie great cly clumsy sea me delbou el bou tf they y how live contentious and ad sm are given to fighting a among A ang themselves from rom earliest pup hood yet fluidness fund nesa for company Is one of their marked trall ai A animal almi coining 19 out at of atie th sea tb is odiously sot not contented on a lonely shun bhore it kundera about nerv or asly be between tweet brief fe resting b 9 periods period and soon oon returns to the note hater per hups hops feeling that it must end and an bome pl one 1 to quarrel 10 A sea elephant when able lending landing 1 crilli I slowly lowly up the ile triine stopping to let the w lives brook break over it and taking advantage of aery cry awell ewel 1 1 to aid its if progress pon ahe hen it hail he reached ill lied the upper A beach it it rise to its if full height and re hen then ficen proceeding ding a lutie little farther it spent the or 1 it if it sides none of I 1 its kind it al may a take a to lela u b before e fr e tl u ig the search tie the two t 0 dozen d z n s 1 e i of f birds which breed on an south georgia otter offer a fee fai field for in the study lady of certain biological i illogic I 1 notably tile the stra 9 sic s tor for of special laverett lai erett nie tile the penguins penguin tu THO species ill are still till co conomou ut at hinch G georcia III jahe nobler little of pg AiO th furm form a 0 sort of arle toracy art are bird stand land n lard bagh they besu a gold collar round their it and ad deport themselves thema elvei to in a rather loft and ad abish bb ish manner A bond band of king agui 19 me make it elan glorious display when all the morning rate aun ans light all hine on an tile the golden goiden throats and ad orange mass ear patch 2 of it the soldier ly 11 bird birds Z acha aca the lie brigade tat Wred lure lre and there over till th bill b bradica ill and moraine mo rainea hall a and ad an ser er each other alth ill long drawn dinno mar tie bial bugle basis calla call and ad alien th oa if at concerted Loncer ted lost all 11 will start hill match march ing lonard foard the sea ea somali sometimes it tin balds land together on oa tile the aid ide of 1 MOM drift tt preening theil m I 1 feathers achning act ning time tam or even awen per pe forming the stunt of belong themselves on an one foot and ad scratch ang 04 their head beada with tile the cuir U |
