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This is a list of towns and settlements on the Falkland Islands. Map of the Falkland Islands Stanley, Capital of the Falkland Islands Goose Green. List
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.
The Falkland Islands (/ ˈ f ɔː (l) k l ə n d, ˈ f ɒ l k-/ FAW(L)K-lənd, FOLK-; [6] Spanish: Islas Malvinas [ˈislas malˈβinas]), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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A map of the Falkland Islands West Falkland from near Keppel Island Johnson's Harbour settlement, East Falkland. Spheniscus magellanicus on Carcass Island. The Neck on Saunders Island. Eudyptes chrysocome on New Island. Stanley Harbour, Stanley with mountains in the distance.
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The two principal islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, account for 91% of the land area. These two islands, which have a combined distance of 220 km (140 mi) from east to west and 140 km (87 mi) from north to south, are separated by the Falkland Sound , a channel that averages 20 km (12 mi) in width and has a typical depth of 40 metres (22 ...