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Saunders Island Settlement (on Saunders Island) Sealion Island Settlement (on Sealion Island) Speedwell Island Settlement (on Speedwell Island) Spring Point Settlement (West Falkland) Stanley (Port Stanley) (capital) (East Falkland) Teal Inlet Settlement (Evelyn Station) (East Falkland) Tranquilidad; Volunteer Point (East Falkland)
Sea Lion Island (Spanish: Isla de los Leones Marinos) is the largest of the Sea Lion Island Group of the Falkland Islands. It is 9 km 2 (3 sq mi) in area. [3] [1] and lies 14 km (9 mi) southeast of Lafonia (East Falkland). It was designated a Ramsar site on 24 September 2001, [4] and as an Important Bird Area (BirdLife International 2006). In ...
The Falkland Islands Company Ltd is a diversified goods and services company owned by FIH Group. Known locally as FIC , it was founded in 1851 and was granted a royal charter to trade in 1852 by Queen Victoria .
Pebble Island Settlement (Spanish/Argentine name: Puerto Calderón [5) is the headquarters of the Pebble Island farm, and is located on the island's isthmus There is a shop (open three days a week), a one classroom school , an airstrip , a hotel and a golf course .
Conceived by Henry E. "Harry" Maude, lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, [1] and approved by His Excellency Sir Harry Luke, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the goal of the project was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago:
Albeit limited, there is a small upscale ecotourism lodge, a 36-room traditional hotel and as well the management of "bonefish lodges," small hotels which offer all-inclusive packages for tourists wishing to fish the world-famous "bonefish flats" of the southeastern fringe of the island. As of summer 2005, there were 4–6 such lodges in ...
The Providence Island colony was established in 1630 by English Puritans on Providence Island (now the Colombian Department of San Andrés and Providencia), about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of the coast of Nicaragua. It was founded and controlled by a group of English investors, the Providence Island Company.
Port Egmont on the island was the site of the first British settlement, established in 1765.. Unaware of the French presence at Port Louis, in January 1765, British captain John Byron explored and claimed Saunders Island, at the western end of the Falkland Islands, where he named the harbour of Port Egmont, and sailed near other islands, which he also claimed for King George III.