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    Grytviken (/ˈɡrɪtviːkən/ GRIT-vee-kən Norwegian: [ˈɡɾŷːtviːkn̩]) is a hamlet on South Georgia in the South Atlantic and formerly a whaling station and...
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    first permanent habitation at Grytviken in 1904. It operated through his Argentine Fishing Company, which settled in Grytviken. The station operated until...
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    and Grytviken have a tundra climate (Köppen ET) with long, cold winters and short, cool summers. The highest temperature ever recorded at Grytviken/King...
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    Norwegian Lutheran Church (until 2013), and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913. The church was part of...
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    most important historically being Grytviken. The main settlement and the capital today is King Edward Point near Grytviken, a British Antarctic Survey research...
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    The invasion of South Georgia, also known as the Battle of Grytviken or Operation Georgias, took place on 3 April 1982, when Argentine Navy forces seized...
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    The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich...
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    Fe was ordered to ferry a party of Argentine marines and supplies to Grytviken, in South Georgia. The island of South Georgia is situated 784 NM southeast...
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    interests with the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which had started whaling at Grytviken since December 1904 was settled by the British authorities with the company...
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    Kerguelen and the Norwegian Lutheran Church, a former Lutheran chapel in Grytviken, South Georgia (since 1913). After years of abandonment and weathering...
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    Georgia. At his wife's request, he remained on the island and was buried in Grytviken cemetery. The wreck of Endurance was discovered just over a century after...
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    for the Museum curator's family at Grytviken. The jetty, the church, dwellings and industrial buildings at Grytviken have recently been renovated by the...
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    across Cumberland East Bay and set up an OP at Brown Mountain overlooking Grytviken. The SAS plan was more ambitious, and called for a helicopter insertion...
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    polar region was a Norwegian girl, Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, born in Grytviken on 8 October 1913. Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south...
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    their young. After serving as a sealing vessel Petrel was beached in Grytviken, South Georgia. According to Robert Headland's "Island of South Georgia"...
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    While the British Magistrate and other civilians and military present in Grytviken were removed from South Georgia during the Argentine occupation of South...
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    the first person born and raised south of the Antarctic Convergence, in Grytviken, South Georgia in 1913. Her father, Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874–1953), settled...
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    Cook. In the Second World War the whaling stations were closed except Grytviken and Leith Harbour. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers and factory...
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  • interviews, that he in fact had never said this. During the two-hour Battle of Grytviken on 3 April 1982, Lieutenant Mills' detachment of 22 Royal Marines inflicted...
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  • elements of the forces which captured the main Argentine positions in Grytviken. This action resulted in the surrender of Argentinian garrison occupying...
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    Machine. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. "Population of Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands". Population.mongabay.com...
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  • Cape Town and then on to the ice. Shackleton decided to sail directly to Grytviken harbour in South Georgia. Equipment and stores that had been sent on to...
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    call, the whaling station at Grytviken on the island of South Georgia, where she arrived on 5 November. She left Grytviken on 5 December 1914, heading...
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    unprofitable, and are now abandoned. These settlements include: Whaler's Bay Grytviken Husvik Leith Harbour Ocean Harbour Prince Olav Harbour Stromness Aghdam...
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  • Falkland Islands Dependencies with a permanent local administration in Grytviken established in 1909. Fridtjof Nansen Land (Franz Josef Land), now part...
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    before Christmas arriving at Grytviken on 22 December. She sailed along the coast of South Georgia and returned to Grytviken on Christmas Eve. On Christmas...
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  • Marsh foxtail 1968 Grytviken Artemisia sp Mugwort 1967 Grytviken Avena fatua Wild-oat 1961 Grytviken Brassica cf. napus Rape 1961 Grytviken Carum carvi Caraway...
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    trekked over South Georgia to raise the alarm at the whaling station Grytviken. In 1946, US Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and more than 4,700 military...
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    Island and in the capital, King Edward Point, as well as museum staff at Grytviken. The territory has been fully integrated into the French central state...
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    Kerguelen Islands, French Southern Lands (France) Nuuk, Greenland (Denmark) Grytviken, South Georgia (United Kingdom) Tiksi, Russia Mykines, Faroe Islands (Denmark)...
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