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Falkland Islands Dependencies

British  

plural noun

  1. the former name (until 1985) for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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He worked with the RAF and trained as a meteorologist, before joining the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey to work in Antarctica.

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He became head of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Physics Unit at the University of Edinburgh in 1969 and returned to BAS in Cambridge as head of the physics section in 1976.

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One of several scientific teams operated by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the men have been on Stonington since early 1947.

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