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Stanley (also known as Port Stanley) is the capital city of the Falkland Islands. It is located on the island of East Falkland, on a north-facing slope in one of the wettest parts of the islands. At the 2016 census, the city had a population of 2,460. [1] The entire population of the Falkland Islands was 3,398 on Census Day - 9 October 2016.
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Map showing the airport and surrounding area. Port Stanley Airport (IATA: PSY, ICAO: SFAL), also merely known as Stanley Airport, is a small civil airport in the Falkland Islands, located two miles (3 kilometres) from the capital, Stanley.
Map of the Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands have a land area of 4,700 sq mi (12,000 km 2 ) and a coastline estimated at 800 mi (1,300 km). [ 104 ] The archipelago consists of two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland, and 776 smaller islands. [ 105 ]
Falkland Islands relief location map.jpg This map has been made or improved in the German Kartenwerkstatt (Map Lab) . You can propose maps to improve as well.
Burdwood Bank was the location of several landslides some three million years ago. This in turn produced tsunami like events that hit the Falkland Islands on its southern coast. Estimates of the size of the waves vary from up to 40 metres (130 ft) at the southern coast and up to 10 metres (33 ft) where the capital, Port Stanley, is located. [18]
Map of the Falkland Islands. The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) from the coast of mainland South America and 600 nautical miles (1,100 km; 690 mi) from mainland Antarctica.
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".