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    Stanley (also known as Port Stanley) is the capital city of the Falkland Islands. It is located on the island of East Falkland, on a north-facing slope...
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  • between the two main islands. In 1982, the Falkland Islands had no roads outside Stanley, only tracks. By 2007, the Falkland Islands had a road network...
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    Port Stanley Airport (IATA: PSY, ICAO: SFAL), also merely known as Stanley Airport, is a small civil airport in the Falkland Islands, located two miles...
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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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    Clausen, A; Ingham, B. "Falkland Islands State of the Environment Report 2008" (PDF). Stanley: Falkland Islands Government and Falklands Conservation: 16–18...
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    Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The Legislative Assembly...
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    The Invasion of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Invasión de las Islas Malvinas), code-named Operation Rosario (Operación Rosario), was a military operation...
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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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    Sandwich Islands, fall under the protection of British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI), formerly known as British Forces Falkland Islands (BFFI),...
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  • 'Government clocks'). The Falkland Islands previously used Stanley Mean Time (UTC−03:51:24) until 11 March 1912, when Falkland Islands Time (FKT, UTC−04:00)...
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    Government House in Stanley has been the home of the Falkland Islands' governors since the mid-19th century. The official residence was built in 1845...
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    governed from the Falkland Islands and its capital Stanley. The following are the British territories that made up the Falkland Island Dependencies in the...
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    Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" (while the motto of the islands is "Desire the right") and...
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    The culture of the Falkland Islands is essentially analogous to that of British culture. The Falkland Islands have a large non-native-born population,...
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    Cathedral, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, is the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world. It is the parish church of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia...
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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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    Falkland Islands Government Air Service (FIGAS) is a small domestic airline based at Port Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands. It operates unscheduled...
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  • The economy of the Falkland Islands, which first involved sealing, whaling and provisioning ships, became heavily dependent on sheep farming from the 1870s...
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    foreign affairs. The capital and largest settlement is Stanley on East Falkland. The islands are believed to have been uninhabited prior to European...
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    is the term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside the islands' only significant town, Stanley, and often the large RAF...
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  • Falkland Islands Community School (FICS) is an 11–16 mixed secondary school in Stanley, Falkland Islands. It was established in 1992 and is next to the...
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    West Falkland (Spanish: Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East...
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    The politics of the Falkland Islands takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary representative democratic dependency as...
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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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  • The Falkland Islands pound has always been pegged to sterling at par and banknotes of both currencies are used interchangeably on the islands, but the...
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    The Falkland Islands Defence Force (FIDF) is the locally maintained volunteer defence unit in the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The FIDF...
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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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    The Falkland Islands have been claimed and occupied by several nations throughout its history, who generally used their national flags on the islands. It...
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    The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate, regulated by the large oceans which surround it. The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas...
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    and SS Seydlitz attempted to raid the British supply base at Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The British squadron consisting of the battlecruisers HMS Invincible...
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