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The designated harbours in Stanley area include Berkeley Sound, Port William and Stanley Harbour itself. [14] Fox Bay is also a customs entry point for West Falkland. In 2020 the government awarded a contract to BAM Nuttall to design and build a new port for the Falklands. [15] [16] The Falkland Islands do not have a merchant navy.
Stanley (also known as Port Stanley) is the capital city of the Falkland Islands. It is located on the island of East Falkland, on a north-facing slope in one of the wettest parts of the islands. At the 2016 census, the city had a population of 2,460. [1] The entire population of the Falkland Islands was 3,398 on Census Day - 9 October 2016.
After the war, the Royal Air Force (RAF) remained in the Falkland Islands, and took over the airport, renaming it RAF Stanley. Immediately after the conflict, air defence of the islands and garrison was carried out by Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.1 and RAF Harrier GR.3 at RAF Stanley and from the aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible , on standing patrol.
Map of the Falkland Islands. The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) from the coast of mainland South America and 600 nautical miles (1,100 km; 690 mi) from mainland Antarctica.
Gypsy Cove in Yorke Bay in 2019, with penguins on the beach Early mapping of Yorke Bay (Dom Pernety, 1769). Yorke Bay is a bay on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands.It is located half a mile north of Port Stanley Airport, four miles to the northeast of the capital city of Stanley, on a peninsula connected to the mainland by the Boxer Bridge and a narrow isthmus known as "The Neck".
Stanley Harbour is a large inlet on the east coast of East Falkland island. A strait called "the Narrows" leads into Port William. It serves the town of the same name – Stanley – as a harbour. Stanley has sprawled along the south shore of the harbour, to gain shelter from the low hill of Stanley Common.
Map showing the Port Stanley area and Blanco Bay. Blanco Bay is a bay located to the north of Stanley, Falkland Islands. It contains the Sparrow Cove. Gypsy Cove and the smaller Yorke Bay lie in its southern part to the northwest of Port Stanley Airport. A small channel passes through to the town of Port Stanley itself.
Burdwood Bank was the location of several landslides some three million years ago. This in turn produced tsunami like events that hit the Falkland Islands on its southern coast. Estimates of the size of the waves vary from up to 40 metres (130 ft) at the southern coast and up to 10 metres (33 ft) where the capital, Port Stanley, is located. [18]