An overseas territory in the Antarctic administered by the United Kingdom, and also including the South Orkney Islands and South Shetland Islands.

plural of British Virgin Islander

plural of British overseas territory

(historical) A variant of daylight saving time, two hours ahead of GMT, used by Britain in the summers of 1941 to 1945, during World War II.

(historical) A seventeenth-century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantage.

An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the middle of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Indonesia; created in 1965; currently used as a joint US/UK military base.

(historical) A company founded by Cecil Rhodes that received a charter from the British government to administer a country in southern Africa that Rhodes named Rhodesia.