However the first Argentine ... South Georgia in mid March when 40 Argentine scrap metal workers landed at Leith Harbor, an abandoned whaling Station; they immediately raised the Argentine flag ...

It has now been 43 years since the UK and Argentina fought over the Falkland Islands after scrap metal merchants, infiltrated by Argentine Marines, raised the country's flag at South Georgia ...

The Royal Navy man-o-war on which Argentina formally surrendered the island of South Georgia during the 1982 ... “practical choice” other than to scrap the vessel. Under tow, it sailed out ...