Operation Paraquet was part. Royal Marines retook Grytviken in two hours on 25 April 1982 using intelligence from the SBS who had infiltrated the island, following an attack on the ARA Santa Fe by Royal Naval helicopters. The garrison at Leith Harbour surrendered the following day, and Corbeta Uruguay surrendered on 20 June 1982. It was demolished that December. Current status Britain has administered South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands separately from the Falklands since the islands were made a British dependent territory in their own right in 1985. The status of the territory was altered by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, and the terminology now used is British overseas territory. Argentina considers the islands to be part of the Islas del Atlántico Sur Department of Tierra del Fuego Province. The claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is written into the 1994 Argentine constitution alongside the claim to the Falkland Islands. Current claims Claims by Argentina Argentina claims that: Argentina has, since 1927, protested every British action that it has known about that contradicted Argentine sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Claims by the United Kingdom The United Kingdom claims that: South Georgia was claimed for Great Britain under Captain Cook in 1775. The United Kingdom annexed South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in 1908. Whaling stations on the islands (including the CAP) operated under British licence. The islands have been administered legally by Britain since 1908, with the exception of being "briefly occupied by Argentinean forces in 1982". See also Sovereignty of the Falkland Islands South American territorial disputes References 1927 establishments in Argentina 1927 establishments in the United Kingdom 1927 in international relations Argentina–United Kingdom relations International disputes Politics of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia South Georgia