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The facilities now incorporate several berths including: the main jetty, roro jetty, west jetty (principally used to berth the Royal Navy's Falkland Islands patrol vessel HMS Forth) and the main jetty (inner) (used to berth a multi-purpose barge (MP2003) and two harbour tugs (Giesenstroom and Dintelstroom), from the contracted Netherlands ...
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.
List of Falkland Islands placenames; List of Scottish place names in other countries; List of rivers of the Falkland Islands; List of settlements in the Falkland Islands; MacBride Head; Map layout; Outline of the Falkland Islands; Port Albemarle; Port William, Falkland Islands; Queen Charlotte Bay; United Nations Security Council Resolution 502 ...
Location of Weddell Island at the western (left) end of the Falkland Islands Satellite image of Weddell Island, with Chatham Harbour at top right and centre. Chatham Harbour (former name States Bay, Spanish: Puerto de San Joseph, Puerto de San José) is the large bay indenting the central part of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. [1]
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The Falkland Islands are an archipelago of 778 islands with an area of 12,173 km 2 (4,700 sq mi) located in the South Atlantic Ocean on a projection of the Patagonian Shelf. The two principal islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, account for 91% of the land area.
The Falkland Islands Government built a network of all weather roads around East and West Falkland, [1] Port Howard is at the northern end of the West Falkland network. Every three years, Port Howard hosts the West Falklands Sports. This week-long celebration of the end of the shearing season combines horse-racing with other festivities.
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".