Posted on 20.10.2012, and completed on 19.01.2014
"Leo Terram Propriam Protegat", that mean "Let the Lion protect his own land", is the motto of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI). Hardly could have been chosen a more significant epigraph for a British Overseas Territory located at about 13,000km from the metropolis. I'd say it's even more than that, it's a watchword, if not even a warning. And given the fact that SGSSI was separated from the Falkland Islands Dependencies, becoming a separate entity, in 1985, so after the Falklands War, the message is even clearer.
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