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    to the islands. The common Spanish name for the archipelago, Islas Malvinas, derives from the French Îles Malouines—the name given to the islands by French...
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    listed building on the island, the Old House. Dom Pernety, Antoine-Joseph. Journal historique d'un voyage fait aux Iles Malouïnes en 1763 et 1764 pour les...
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    partie du Detroit de Magellan et de l'Île Malouine. (Post 1765) E.A.P. de Prétot. Carte des Iles Malouines Nommées par les Anglois Iles Falkland. Paris...
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    Louis Antoine de Bougainville (category CS1: long volume value)
    the peace, the French decided to colonise the "Îles Malouines" (Falkland Islands). These islands were at that time almost unknown. At his own expense...
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    Great-tailed grackle (category CS1: long volume value)
    author Antoine-Joseph Pernety in his work Histoire d'un voyage aux Isles Malouines. The great-tailed grackle is now one of six species placed in the genus...
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  • around 250. The islands were named after the Breton port of Saint-Malo as the Îles Malouines, which remains the French name for the islands. In 1765, Captain...
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    known in English as the Falkland Islands. Islas Malvinas derives from the 1764 name Îles Malouines, given to the islands by French explorer Louis-Antoine...
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    Spanish name of the Falkland Islands, Islas Malvinas, can be traced to Malo, as it is derived from the French, Îles Malouines and named by Louis Antoine...
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  • to the islands. The Spanish name for the archipelago, Islas Malvinas, derives from the French Îles Malouines — the name given to the islands by French...
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    settlement included a number of Bretons, and the islands became known as "Îles Malouines" (the islands of St Malo), later Hispanicised as "Islas Malvinas"...
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    kilograms (130 lb) and had legs 8 meters (26 ft) long. According to Pernetti (Voyage aux iles Malouines) off the coast of Angola, a huge 8-armed octopus...
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    type material was collected "sur les côtes des Îles Malouines" (off the coast of the Falkland Islands). James K. Lowry (2003). "Hyperiidae". Crustacea:...
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    Îles Malouines. In 1765, Captain John Byron, who was unaware the French had established Port Saint Louis on East Falkland, explored Saunders Island around...
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    Georgia but the Falkland Islands instead (known at that time as John Davis's South Land or Sebald Islands, not yet Malouines, Falklands or Malvinas),...
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    Îles Malouines, the French name for the Falkland Islands. The species is monotypic. The white-bellied seedsnipe is 26.5 to 29 cm (10 to 11 in) long and...
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  • Islands", from the French Malouines describing the Breton sailors from St. Malo in Brittany who frequented the islands in the 1690s. Sebald Islands,...
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    serious leak in one of them. Repairs were unsuccessful and the ship was no longer considered suitable for convoy escort work. Since the ship had only recently...
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    Falklands Crisis of 1770 (category 1770 in the Falkland Islands)
    the question of the prior right of sovereignty of the Malouine, otherwise called Falkland's islands." This concession was accepted by the Earl of Rochford...
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    Stanley Harbour (category Stanley, Falkland Islands)
    Pernety, Antoine-Joseph. Journal historique d'un voyage fait aux Iles Malouïnes en 1763 et 1764 pour les reconnoître et y former un établissement; et...
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    to the south-west, as well as the western coast of Moluccas [Malvinas/Malouines/Falklands]. They then entered the river La Plata, after having surmounted...
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    and two submarines. The route was longer than earlier convoys, since the ice allowed for a passage north of Bear Island and an evasive detour in the Barents...
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    source diary and supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA aboard HMS La Malouine. Lend-Lease, Northern Convoys from the Voice of Russia website The Norwegian...
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    Victory"—filmed aboard Sackville HMS Violet Diary of a Petty Officer on HMS La Malouine during Convoy PQ.17. 1953 film "The Cruel Sea" – based on Nicholas Monsarrat's...
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    List of Ericaceae genera (category CS1: long volume value)
    Mirbel, Charles François Brisseau (1825). "Rapport sur la Flore des Îles Malouines par M. Gaudichaud". Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 5: 89–109...
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    Stone run (category Landforms of the Falkland Islands)
    Pernety, Antoine-Joseph. Journal historique d'un voyage fait aux Iles Malouïnes en 1763 et 1764 pour les reconnoître et y former un établissement; et...
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    Port Elizabeth to Marion Island to bring back a patient for an appendectomy and arrived back at Port Elizabeth with only 15 long tons (15.2 t) of fuel remaining...
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    plus the sloops Fowey, Black Swan and the corvettes HMS Carnation and La Malouine, also at Gibraltar, 17 ships in all. A U-boat hunter group of Force H destroyers...
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    being run to Terceira and Faial islands, carrying stores and personnel to allow the use of these bases for Very Long Range (VLR) maritime patrol aircraft...
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    French Navy and renamed Le Dieppoise (M 730), La Bayonnaise (M 728), La Malouine (M 727), La Dunkerquoise (M 726), La Lorientaise (M 731) and La Paimpolaise...
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    several ownership changes by the early 1950s when she was acquired in 1954 by Island Tug and Barge of Victoria, British Columbia. She was converted to an ocean-going...
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