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List of islands of the Falkland Islands

List of islands of the Falkland Islands

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The following is a list of islands that form the Falkland Islands.

A map of the Falkland Islands

Main 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.
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Other islands

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Small archipelagos

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Jason Islands

None of the Jason Islands are permanently inhabited.

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Highest islands

Stanley Harbour, Stanley with mountains in the distance.
Augustus Keppel, wearing flag officer's undress uniform, 1765, by Reynolds (National Maritime Museum)
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List of Falkland Islands named after people

This is a short list of islands, which are known to be named after someone. Until at least 1781, the Falklands as a whole were known as the Sebald or Sebaldine Island after Sebald de Weert, who sighted them and tried to make landfall on the Jason Islands in January 1600.[3][4]

Spanish names derived from people

A list of the derivations of Spanish names, where they differ substantially from the English versions.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Falkland Islands Important Bird Areas Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine Falklands Conservation
  2. [2]
    "virtualglobetrotting.com/map/mount-usborne-highest-point-of-the-falkland-islands". www.summitpost.org. 2 April 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
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    William Funnell, A voyage round the world, London, 1707
  4. [4]
    John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery, London, 1781
  5. [5]
    Tyssen, John at www.falklandsbiographies.org
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