San Carlos Water
San Carlos Water is a bay/fjord on the west coast of East Falkland, facing onto the Falkland Sound.
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167 Articles of interest in Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
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The Assault on Mount Kent was an engagement during the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces.
Lafonia
Lafonia is a peninsula forming the southern part of East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands.
San Carlos, Falkland Islands
San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. It is sometimes nicknamed "JB" after a former owner, Jack Bonner. The settlement consists of a number of properties including a dwelling wi…
Jason Islands
The Jason Islands (Spanish: Islas Sebaldes) are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying to the far north-west of West Falkland. Three of the islands, Steeple Jason, Grand Jason and Clarke's Islet, are private nature reserves owned by the Wildl…
Puerto Soledad
Puerto Soledad (Puerto de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, English: Port Solitude) was a Spanish military outpost and penal colony on the Falkland Islands, situated at an inner cove of Berkeley Sound (French: Baie Accaron, Spanish: Bahía Anunciación).
Mount Usborne
Mount Usborne Spanish: Cerro Alberdi is a mountain on East Falkland.
Keppel Island
Keppel Island (Spanish: Isla de la Vigia) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Saunders and Pebble islands, and near Golding Island to the north of West Falkland on Keppel Sound. It has an area of 3,626 hectares (8,960 acres) and its highes…
Sea Lion Island
Sea Lion Island (Spanish: Isla de los Leones Marinos) is the largest of the Sea Lion Island Group of the Falkland Islands. It is 9 km2 (3 sq mi) in area. and lies 14 km (9 mi) southeast of Lafonia (East Falkland).
Roman Catholicism in the Falkland Islands
There are over 230 Catholics in the Falkland Islands, approximately 10% of the total population. There are no dioceses in the islands, instead they form an apostolic prefecture which was erected in January 1952. The spiritual leader of the prefectur…
Port San Carlos
Port San Carlos is located on the northern bank of the inlet known as Port San Carlos, off San Carlos Water on the Western coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands.
No. 656 Squadron AAC
No. 656 Squadron AAC is a squadron of the British Army's Army Air Corps. It was chosen as one of the AAC new Apache Squadrons and in April 2004 started its conversion to role.
Volunteer Point
Volunteer Point is a headland on the east coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, to the north north east (as the crow flies) of Stanley, and east of Johnson's Harbour and Berkeley Sound.
Sapper Hill
Sapper Hill (453 ft) is on East Falkland, Falkland Islands. It is just to the south of Stanley, and is heavily mined from the Falklands War.
601 Commando Company
The 601 Commando Company (Spanish: Compañía de Comandos 601) is a special operations unit of the Argentine Army.
West Point Island
West Point Island (originally known as Albatross Island; Spanish: Isla Remolinos) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying west of West Falkland. It has an area of 1,255 hectares (4.85 sq mi).
Pebble Island Settlement
Pebble Island Settlement (Spanish/Argentine name: Puerto Calderón) is on Pebble Island in the northwest Falkland Islands, United Kingdom.
Hill Cove
Hill Cove is the third largest settlement on West Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, in the north-west. It is on the north coast, on the shore of Byron Sound, and overlooks Port Egmont on Saunders Island, the first British settlement in the islands.
Bleaker Island
Bleaker Island (Spanish: Isla Maria) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying off south east Lafonia (the southern peninsula of East Falkland). The name is a corruption of "Breaker Island" due to the waves that break on it.
Beaver Island, Falkland Islands
Beaver Island (Spanish: Isla San Rafael) is one of the Beaver Island group of Falkland Islands.
Staats Island
Staats Island is one of the Beaver Island Group in the Falkland Islands. It lies between Beaver Island and Weddell Island, parallel to Tea Island and is 500 hectares (1,200 acres) in area. It is known for its Patagonian foxes and guanacos, both intr…
Speedwell Island
Speedwell Island (formerly Eagle Island; Spanish Isla Águila) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the Falkland Sound, southwest of Lafonia, East Falkland.
Salvador Settlement
Salvador Settlement, also called Salvador, Salvador Settlement Corral, is a small harbour and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, It is on the north east coast, on the south shore of Port Salvador.
Port Stephens, Falkland Islands
Port Stephens is a settlement on West Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. It is on the far south west of the island, near Calm Head and Cape Meredith and South Harbour is the nearest other settlement. Until recently, it was one of the Falkland Island…
Port Patterson
Port Patterson is a settlement on Carcass Island in the western Falkland Islands. It takes its name from the bay it is on, on the south west coast of the island.
North Arm
North Arm is a settlement in Lafonia, the southern part of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, It is on the south coast, on the shore of the Bay of Harbours, and overlooks Sea Lion Island in the distance. In 2007, the population was 25 people, s…
No Man's Land, Falkland Islands
No Man's Land is an area on East Falkland island, in the Falkland Islands. It probably derives its name from the fact that it is extremely rough ground, and is partly co-extensive with the Wickham Heights.
Lively Island
Lively Island (Spanish: Isla Bougainville) is the largest of the Lively Island Group of the Falkland Islands, The island group lies east of East Falkland. Lively Island is the largest rat-free island in the Falklands, hence its importance to birdlif…
Johnson's Harbour
Johnson's Harbour is a settlement on the north east coast of East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. It is on the shore of Berkeley Sound at the head of Chabot Creek on a bay also named Johnson's Harbour. It has a small store but the FIGAS only lands…
Fitzroy, Falkland Islands
Fitzroy is a settlement on East Falkland.
Bluff Cove
Bluff Cove (Spanish: Bahia Agradable or Hoya Fitzroy) is a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, on its east coast.
Barren Island, Falkland Islands
Barren Island (Spanish: Isla Pelada) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying south west of East Falkland and south east of George Island. It is separated from Lafonia by Eagle Passage.
ARA Isla de los Estados
ARA Isla de los Estados was an Argentine naval supply ship sunk during the Falklands War.
Port William, Falkland Islands
Port William (French: Baye Choiseul, Spanish: Puerto Groussac) is a large inlet on the east coast of East Falkland island.
Kidney Island
Kidney Island Spanish: Isla Celebroña, so called due to its shape, is a small island with a land area of 33 hectares (82 acres), to the east of East Falkland, not far from Stanley. It lies is at the east end of Berkeley Sound near Kidney Cove, and i…
Hope Place
Hope Place (known in Spanish as Valle Esperanza) was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos br…