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There are two seaports in the Falkland Islands, Stanley (East Falkland) and Fox Bay (West Falkland). Additionally, British forces in the islands use a port facility at Mare Harbour. 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.
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 ...
A cruise ship and a squid trawler in Port William, from the site proposed for a new deep water port development. Early mapping of Port William (Dom Pernety, 1769) Map of the Falkland Islands showing Port William. Port William (French: Baye Choiseul, [1] Spanish: Puerto Groussac [2]) is a large inlet on the east coast of East Falkland island.
In the aftermath of the Falklands War, Stanley Harbour was the departure point for many of the Argentine POWs being transported back to Argentina. Due to the lack of accommodation, for a while, British troops were billetted on boats in the harbour.
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 ...
Port San Carlos. Port San Carlos is located on the northern bank of the inlet known as Port San Carlos, [1] off San Carlos Water on the Western coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. It is sometimes nicknamed "KC" after former owner Keith Cameron. [2] The port takes its name from the ship San Carlos which visited in 1768.
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".
The inlet was the site of the first attempts at colonisation of the islands, at Port Louis, by the French. Berkeley Sound has several smaller bays within it – Uranie Bay, Port Louis harbour and Johnson's Harbour bay, separated by Grave Point, and includes islands such as Hog Island, Kidney Island (a nature reserve) and Long Island. It was ...