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 war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession of the Falkland Islands and its dependencies of South Georgia and the South
Falkland Islands
…to the islands. In April 1982, Argentine military forces invaded the islands. British administration was restored two months later at the end of the Falklands War. In a 2013 sovereignty referendum, almost all of the votes cast were in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory. The territory's sovereignty status…
HMS Broadsword and Hermes, 1982
Etendard en 1982
HMS Antelope 1982
Argentine PO Ws