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    Fitzroy Fitzroy is a settlement on East Falkland. It is divided into Fitzroy North and Fitzroy South by a tidal river called Fitzroy River that is fed...
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    Falkland Islands. List of settlements by name, population, and island it is located on Ajax Bay (East Falkland) Beaver Settlement (on Beaver Island)...
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    sent by the United Kingdom to re-assert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas), after the United Provinces of the Rio de...
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    in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April...
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  • islands for a few years prior to 1833. The dispute escalated in 1982, when Argentina invaded the islands, precipitating the Falklands War. Falkland Islanders...
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  • Arenas Fitzroy, Falkland Islands Fitzroy, Taranaki, a suburb of New Plymouth Fitzroy, Waikato, a suburb of Hamilton Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island Fitz...
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    Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was commemorated on two stamps issued by the Royal Mail for the Falkland Islands and St Helena. Fitzroy Island in Queensland, Australia...
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    The history of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking...
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    of the island's population. East Falkland, which has an area of 6,605 km2 (2,550 square miles), a little over half the total area of the islands consists...
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    The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the...
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    The Falkland Islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean between 51°S and 53°S on a projection of the Patagonian Shelf, part of the South American...
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  • fauna in limestone erratics from the Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102:201-225...
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    but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Falkland Islands, comprising and descended in part from settlers brought by Luis Vernet...
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    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...
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    Weddell Island (Spanish: Isla San José) is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is...
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    The geology of the Falkland Islands is described in several publications. The Falkland Islands are located on a projection of the Patagonian continental...
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    (1860). South America Pilot: Including Magellan Strait, the Falkland and Galapagos Islands. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama. G.E. Eyre and...
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    side of Tea Island Passage forming the south side of the entrance to Skull Bay on the west coast of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. The point is...
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    RFA Sir Tristram (category Falklands War naval ships of the United Kingdom)
    Kong Chinese sailors. The ship saw service in the Falklands War of 1982, and was badly damaged at Fitzroy on 8 June. From completion to early 1970 Sir Tristram...
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    Bluff Cove (category Inlets of the Falkland Islands)
    (Spanish: Bahía Agradable or Hoya Fitzroy) is a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, on its east coast. It was the site...
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    The 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands depended on complex logistical arrangements. The logistical difficulties of operating...
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  • Scottish mariner, sealer and notable figure in the early history of the Falkland Islands. Little is known of Brisbane's early life. He was born in Perth, Scotland...
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    This is a list of buildings and structures in the Falkland Islands designated as being of architectural or historic interest, updated per 19 January 2006...
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    Hotham Heights (category Mountains of the Falkland Islands)
    Hotham Heights occupy the western interior of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. The feature extends 9 km (5.6 mi) in southwest–northeast direction...
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    Pitt Heights (category Mountains of the Falkland Islands)
    Pitt Heights occupy the northwestern interior of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. The feature extends 7.5 km (4.7 mi) in southwest–northeast direction...
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  • The Battle of Mount Kent was a series of engagements during the Falklands War, primarily between British and Argentine special forces. Mount Kent and...
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    José) is the large bay indenting the central part of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands. It is entered east of Beacon Point and west of Loop Head. The...
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    Bluff Cove air attacks (category 1982 in the Falkland Islands)
    significant damage and casualties. By 1 June, British forces on the Falkland Islands were bolstered by the arrival of 5,000 new troops of the 5th Infantry...
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  • Sir Tony Wilson, 6th Baronet (category British Army personnel of the Falklands War)
    on East Falkland, in their advance towards the Islands' capital, Stanley. First, Wilson was able to secure a large part of the eastern island, with the...
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    on the east side of the entrance to Chatham Harbour in Weddell Island, Falkland Islands. It is located at 51°45′48″S 60°53′49″W / 51.76333°S 60.89694°W...
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