Falkland Islands
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The Falkland Islands, commonly referred to as the Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about 300 mi east of South America's south
Gauchos drinking mate at a salting plant in Valle Esperanza, located in the centre of East Falkland in the 1850s.
Depiction of the sinking of the Scharnhorst during the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands (painting by William Lionel Wyllie)
Government House in Stanley is the Governor's official residence.
Colony of southern rockhopper penguins on Saunders Island
Falklands War
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The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial d
HMS Broadsword and Hermes, 1982
Etendard en 1982
HMS Antelope 1982
Argentine PO Ws