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Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) is disputed by Argentina and the United Kingdom.The British claim to sovereignty dates from 1690, when they made the first recorded landing on the islands, [1] and the United Kingdom has exercised de facto sovereignty over the archipelago almost continuously since 1833.
The sovereignty dispute intensified during the 1960s, ... Map of the Falkland Islands. The Falkland Islands have a land area of 4,700 sq mi (12,000 km 2) ...
The Falklands Crisis of 1770 was a diplomatic standoff between Great Britain and Spain over possession of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. These events were nearly the cause of a war between Britain and Spain—backed by France—and all three countries were poised to dispatch armed fleets to defend the rival claims to sovereignty of the barren but strategically important islands.
British sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar is not up for negotiation, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he told MPs the islands “are British and will remain British”.
The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) became a parliamentary representative dependency, whose members are democratically elected; while the governor, as head of government and representative of the monarch, is purely a figurehead without executive powers. Effectively, the Falkland Islands are self-governing, with the exception of foreign policy.
1881: The Falkland Islands become financially independent. 1884: Argentina requests that the sovereignty dispute be submitted to independent arbitration, Britain refuses. The first mention of the Falkland Islands by Argentina for 34 years. 1886: Second peat slide destroys the exchange building and two women are killed.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
A map showing key locations during the Falklands War and the distances covered by British forces. The Falkland Islands is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean and a British Overseas Territory. The islands are located 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from the UK. Sovereignty over the Falklands has been disputed between Argentina and the UK since 1833.