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2. Shipbuilding (song) - Wikipedia

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   "Shipbuilding" is a song with lyrics by Elvis Costello and music by Clive Langer. [1] Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics highlight the irony of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside, Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) [2] to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war ...

3. Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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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.

4. An Ungentlemanly Act - Wikipedia

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   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).

5. Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island

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   The Falkland Islands are a British-ruled overseas territory over which Great Britain and Argentina fought a brief war in 1982. Britain won the war, but Argentina continues to claim the islands.

6. Falkland Islanders - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Argentina wants ‘full sovereignty’ of Falklands after return ...

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   Meanwhile, the shadow of the Falklands war hands over UK-Argentine relations, with Buenos Aires invading in 1982 and claiming it inherited the islands from Spain in the 1800s.

8. Land mines in the Falkland Islands - Wikipedia

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   Argentinian forces invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic, in April 1982. British forces retook the islands by 14 June in the Falklands War. [1] One of the first actions taken by the Argentinians after the invasion was to lay mine fields to assist in the defence of the islands. [2]

9. Minister dubs Falklands ‘an important part of the British ...

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   David Rutley is arriving in Stanley later on Thursday, the Foreign Office said.