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While Amerindians from Patagonia could have visited the Falklands, the islands were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans.

Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia ( on the southern half of East Falkland ) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that suggests the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands.

It is not known if these are evidence of one-way journeys, but there is no known evidence of pre-Columbian buildings or structures.

However, it remains ambiguous whether the discovery predates arrival of Europeans because of the presence of a Patagonian Missionary Society mission station on Keppel Island, founded in 1856.

Yahgan Indians were at this station from 1856 to 1898 and may be the source of the discovered artifacts.