#British Overseas Territories

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Cap Juluca, Anguilla, British Overseas Territories: Cap Juluca is a 5-star hotel Located at Maundays Bay in Anguilla. Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Eastern Caribbean, comprises a small main island and several offshore islets. Its beaches range from long sandy stretches like Rendezvous Bay, overlooking neighboring Saint Martin island, to secluded coves reached by boat, such as at Little Bay. Wikipédia

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The Size of British Overseas Territories compared to the UK.

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King Penguins in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (British Overseas Territory)

Birger Strahl

Scientific name: Aptenodytes patagonicus

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) 

Mass: 21 – 38 lbs

Family: Spheniscidae

Class: Aves

Domain: Eukaryota

Genus: Aptenodytes

The king penguin is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin. There are two subspecies, A. p. patagonicus and A. p. halli; patagonicus is found in the South Atlantic and halli in the South Indian Ocean and at Macquarie Island.

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The Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territories (courtesy of Google Maps via GeoGuessr)  

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Pitcairn Islands

Kinda weird that only 39 or so people live on the Pitcairn Islands. But also it's the only territory that makes the UK "the empire on which the sun never sets" now.

But also from memory like 90% of its revenue comes from Foreign Office aid.

And said office is having to go cutting some of it bit by bit bc government overall feeling like saving

So if said aid gets cut down to £0.... what happens?

idk. one way to find out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also another weird quirk for an island nation, they have a pizzeria

idk i might go to adamstown or not

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Here's British Overseas Territories in Putin Unfriendly List

Here’s British Overseas Territories in Putin Unfriendly List

The Russian government has added 11 British Overseas Territories to its unfriendly countries list, the Russian Cabinet’s website said on Sunday. Eleven more British Overseas Territories have been added to the list [of territories] that supported the sanctions imposed by the UK on Russia. These are: Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British Indian Ocean Territory Cayman Islands Falkland…

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Just found out there’s an island called Inaccessible Island that’s almost completely surrounded by cliffs, and one of the cliffs is called Where-the-Pig-Fell-Off, because humans can’t live there so they tried to fill the island with pigs and they all died. Oh, and the only way to get there is to travel for 7 days in a boat from Cape Town with permission from the government. There’s also an extinct volcano :)

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A 2017 photo of Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise thought to be the oldest reptile living on Earth. Jonathan lives on Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.

(Image credit: Gianluigi Guercia / AFP via Getty Images)

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Today 2nd April marks the 42nd Anniversary of the Falklands War, a conflict fought over 8000 miles away from the United Kingdom.

"The people of the Falkland Islands...are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance." – Margaret Thatcher, 1982.

42 years on, we will still defend that right.

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Fishing boats and nets in the Dhekelia Cantonment military base, British overseas territory in Cyprus

Cyprian vintage postcard

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Hamilton, Bermuda: The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a port and tourist destination. It is one of the smallest of any capital city… Today, the city overlooking Hamilton Harbour is primarily a business district, with few structures other than office buildings and shops. Wikipedia

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Gibraltar

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what the hell goes on there

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Bermuda (courtesy of Google Maps via MapCrunch)  

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Seven Mile Beach, Cayman Islands

Tom Podmore

Won "The Caribbean's Best Beach" in 2015 from Caribbean Travel and Life Magazine.