South Georgian

Then in March 2020, Covid-19 rushed across the world, and the South Georgian government - based in the Falkland Islands - asked the museum team to leave.

“The defining mystery of the future president’s childhood was how he nevertheless was molded into something quite alien from his South Georgian racist culture,” Bird notes.

"Recently, when out for a walk, I've seen South Georgian sea lions in the harbour because it's the season when they all start coming up here."

He still lives in Plains, the small town where he was born in 1924, amid the flat, south Georgian landscape of farmland, pecan trees and superabundant churches—in one of which he taught his regular Bible lesson on August 23rd, shortly after revealing that his cancer had spread to his brain.

If the survey is positive, the next stage will be negotiating with the South Georgian authorities, who own the wreck, and raising the estimated £300,000 to transport the Viola to Hull.