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Southern Thule
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Southern Thule
Southern Thule
is a collection of the three southernmost
islands
in the
South Sandwich Islands
:
Bellingshausen
,
Cook
, and
Thule (Morrell)
. The Southern Thule territory is claimed by
Argentina
and the
United Kingdom
. The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited. It has an extensive
exclusive economic zone
rich in marine living resources managed as part of the
SGSSI
fisheries. The
Admiralty
's
Antarctic Pilot
says that Southern Thule is part of an old sunken
volcano
, and is covered with
ash
and
penguin
guano
. There are
seal
s,
petrels
, and a bank of
kelp
just offshore, especially around a small inlet on Morrell called
Ferguson Bay
.
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