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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Bird Island
| Issuer | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A group of four emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) depicted standing in the central field, rendered in fine relief against a mirrored proof background. The legend BIRD ISLAND arcs along the upper rim. The numeral 2 appears in large format at the lower left of the field, accompanied by a small superscript 'p' denoting the denomination, referencing the Bird Island research station of South Georgia. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bird Island sits off the northwestern tip of South Georgia and hosts one of the British Antarctic Survey's longest-running research stations, established in 1958. The island supports globally significant breeding populations of black-browed albatrosses, macaroni penguins, and Antarctic fur seals — the fur seal population alone having rebounded from near-extinction following nineteenth-century commercial sealing that stripped the beaches bare within decades of the island's discovery.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands issues coins through the British Royal Mint under a separate territorial identity, with no resident civilian population to actually circulate them.