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The Falkland Islands has officially used Falkland Islands Standard Time (FKST, UTC−03:00) all year round since 5 September 2010. [1] However, many residents of Camp (all areas of the Falkland Islands outside the main city) use UTC−04:00, known in the Falklands as 'Camp time' (as opposed to 'Stanley time' or 'Government clocks').
Stanley, now officially a city, is the financial centre of the Falkland Islands' economy. [ 129 ] As of 2023 [update] , the economy of the Falkland Islands is ranked the 221st largest out of 229 in the world by GDP ( PPP ), [ 130 ] but ranks 10th worldwide by GDP (PPP) per capita . [ 131 ]
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".
This is a list of towns and settlements on the Falkland Islands. Map of the Falkland Islands Stanley, Capital of the Falkland Islands Goose Green. List
Port Howard was founded by James Lovegrove Waldron and his brother, in 1866. The Waldron brothers later left for Patagonia, leaving the farm under local management.In 1956, JL Waldron Ltd built a school at Port Howard — possibly inspired by the "gift" of the FIC, a few years, earlier at Darwin.
Stanley is the main shopping centre on the islands and the hub of East Falkland's road network. Attractions include the Falkland Islands Museum, Government House—built in 1845 and home to the Governor of the Falkland Islands—and a golf course, as well as a whale-bone arch, a totem pole, several war memorials and the shipwrecks in
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.
English Captain John Strong, commander of Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage "Falkland Channel" (now Falkland Sound), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland (1656–1694), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty. From this body ...