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The Falkland Islands are biogeographically part of the Antarctic zone, [114] with strong connections to the flora and fauna of Patagonia in mainland South America. [115] Land birds make up most of the Falklands' avifauna. The only endemic bird species on the Falkland Islands are the flightless Falkland steamer duck and Cobb's wren.
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.
Ian Richardson replaced Ian Holm as Falklands Governor Rex Hunt after Holm dropped out of the production at the last minute. Bob Peck plays Major Mike Norman, the commander of the Royal Marines based at Stanley , while Norman himself acted as advisor on the production, and has a small part as a member of the Falkland Islands Defence Force (FIDF).
The Falklands compete in the Commonwealth Games and in the biennial Island Games. [23] Louis Baillon is the only Falkland Islander to have become an Olympic champion, as a member of the British field hockey team which won a gold medal in 1908.
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.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las 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.
The Michael Jackson documentary “Leaving Neverland” is officially getting a sequel. An hour-long follow-up film, subtitled “Surviving Michael Jackson,” will debut on the U.K.’s Channel 4 ...
RAF Mount Pleasant (IATA: MPN, ICAO: EGYP) (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) [2] is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.