SOUTH GEORGIA, a British island in the South Atlantic Ocean, uninhabited, and almost perpetually ice-bound; nearly 800 miles E. by S. of the Falkland Isles, of which it is a dependency; area, 1,000 square miles. Discovered in 1675, it was taken possession of by Captain Cook in 1775; and here in 1882-1883 lived the German expedition for observing the transit of Venus.