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After the Argentinians withdrew their claim to the islands and returned to their country the small military garrison on South Georgia withdrew in March 2001 replaced by a permanent group of scientists of the British Antarctic Survey, which also has a biological station on Bird Island; the South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited.
The South Georgia Island is a British territory located in the mid Atlantic Ocean ridge. According to the 2006 information, this Island has a population of only 30.

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