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The Thatcher-Peninsula, South Georgia

Thatcher Peninsula The Thatcher Peninsula is a mountainous peninsula of South Georgia, in middle of the northern coast, separating Cumberland West Bay from Cumberland East Bay and Moraine Fjord. Its point is named Mai Point. King Edward Cove, the capital of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, stands on the east side of the peninsula. Here also is Grytviken, the main whaling station in the days of the Antarctic whale fishery, and today the site of a British Antarctic Survey station. The peninsula was named in 1991 after Margaret Thatcher, who as Prime Minister dispatched the forces to liberate the island in the Falklands War of 1982. (Read more)