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  2. List of settlements in the Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of towns and settlements on the Falkland Islands. Map of the Falkland Islands Stanley, ...

  3. File:Falkland Islands topographic map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    They consist of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, together with about 700 smaller islands. Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and largest city. The islands are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.

  4. List of islands of the Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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    This is a short list of islands, which are known to be named after someone. Until at least 1781, the Falklands as a whole were known as the Sebald or Sebaldine Island after Sebald de Weert , who sighted them and tried to make landfall on the Jason Islands in January 1600.

  5. Stanley, Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Johnson's Harbour - Wikipedia

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    Johnson's Harbour is a settlement on the northeast 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 there in case of emergencies. Surrounding hills include North Lookout (191 metres (628 ft ...

  7. List of Falkland Islands placenames - Wikipedia

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    The Falkland Islands take their name from the Falkland Sound, a strait separating the archipelago's two main islands. [4] The name "Falkland" was applied to the channel by John Strong, captain of an English expedition, which landed on the islands in 1690.

  8. File:Falkland Islands map.svg - Wikipedia

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    They consist of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, together with about 700 smaller islands. Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and largest city. The islands are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have been the subject of a claim to sovereignty by Argentina since the British invasion of 1833.

  9. File:Falkland Islands map shaded relief-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    They consist of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, together with about 700 smaller islands. Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and largest city. The islands are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. Note : The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.