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* The Parish of the Falkland Islands ( extraprovincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury )
* 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
He does hold metropolitical authority over several extra-provincial Anglican churches, and he serves ex officio as the Bishop of the Falkland Islands.
ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.
Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.
In 1982 the British Army, alongside the Royal Marines, helped to recapture the Falkland Islands during the Falklands conflict against Argentina.
During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.
* Falkland Islands
* Darwin, Falkland Islands
* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* Falkland Islands
Map of the modern Falkland Islands.
The history of the Falkland Islands () goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.
It would seem that the lineages of the Maned Wolf and the Falkland Islands Wolf separated in North America ; canids did not appear in South America until roughly 3 million years ago in a paleozoogeographical event called the Great American Biotic Interchange, in which the continents of North and South America were newly connected by the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.
An archipelago in the region of the Falkland Islands appeared on Portuguese maps from the early 16th century.
Following the departure of the Spanish settlers, the Falkland Islands became the domain of whalers and sealers who used the islands to shelter from the worst of the South Atlantic weather.
By merit of their location, the Falkland Islands have often been the last refuge for ships damaged at sea.
Map of the Falkland Islands

Falkland and Radio
Stanley is also home to the Falkland Islands Radio Station ( FIRS ), the Stanley office of the British Antarctic Survey, and the office of the weekly Penguin News newspaper.
There is one major newspaper, the Penguin News and also a radio station the Falkland Islands Radio Service ( FIRS ).
* Radio Nova ( Falkland Islands )

Falkland and Service
Falkland Islands Television Service is found in May 2012 available in Falkland Islands in Channel 2.
Sir Miles was instrumental in starting the Falkland Islands Government Air Service in December 1948.
BN-2B Islander Aircraft registration | VP-FBD operated by the Falkland Islands Government Air Service, Stanley, Falkland Islands | Stanley, 1994.
The Falkland Islands Government Air Service ( FIGAS ) operates Islander aircraft that can use the grass airstrips that most settlements have.
Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the Falkland Islands consists of 33 Engineer Regiment ( EOD ), RAF and RLC EOD teams.
Television did not arrive on the island until 2001, and the two channels available are BFBS 1 and 2 British Forces Broadcasting Service from the Falkland Islands.
33 Engineer Regiment ( EOD ) provides constant support and is part of the Joint Service Falkland Islands Detachment which consists of RAF and RLC EOD teams.
The British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) provides radio and television programmes for HM Forces, and their dependents, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Kosovo, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Tristan da Cunha as well as a live satellite service to Royal Navy ships at sea.
He commanded Special Service operations in-theatre during the Falkland Conflict.
Bear Island was surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ), who named it for the USS Bear, flagship of the United States Antarctic Service ( USAS ) Expedition which visited this area in 1940.

Falkland and operates
The islands have been part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962 ( previously they were a Falkland Islands Dependency ), and the British Antarctic Survey operates a base on Signy Island.

Falkland and radio
BFBS broadcasts to service personnel, their families and friends all over the world with local radio studios in Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and Northern Ireland and operational areas from the studio in Afghanistan.
With no radio, Herbert had no way of knowing that the Shackleton had hit an iceberg and was returning to the Falkland Islands for repairs.

Falkland and network
By 2007, the Falkland Islands had a road network of with a further roads planned for construction link to all occupied mainland settlements by 2013.
The area is home to the Falkland Islands radar antenna array, part of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network ( SuperDARN ), an international radar network for studying the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.
Over the past 15 years the Falkland Islands Government has built a network of all weather roads around East and West Falkland, Port Howard is at the Northern end of the West Falkland network.

Falkland and conjunction
Rothesay had also in conjunction with his uncle, Alexander Stewart, earl of Buchan, confronted Albany's influence in central Scotland — as soon his lieutenancy expired in 1402 Rothesay was arrested and imprisoned in Albany's Falkland Castle where he died in March 1402.

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To trace it starting arbitrarily at South America, it flows through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula and then is split by the Scotia Arc to the east, with a shallow warm branch flowing to the north in the Falkland Current and a deeper branch passing through the Arc more to the east before also turning to the north.
The politics of the Falkland Islands takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary representative democratic dependency as set out by the constitution, whereby the Governor exercises the duties of head of state in the absence of the monarch and the Chief Executive acts as the head of government, with an elected Legislative Assembly to propose new laws and hold the executive to account.
Gavin Short MLA announced that the Falkland Islanders will vote on a referendum over the archipelago's sovereignty in 2013 in an attempt to end the ongoing dispute with Argentina.
The Supreme Court of the Falkland Islands has unlimited jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings, and consists of the Chief Justice ( CJ ) who is generally a senior barrister or solicitor with a good amount of judicial experience in the United Kingdom.
The Director of Finance of the Falkland Islands is responsible for government expenditure on the islands, acting with authorisation from the Legislative Assembly.
The islands also provided a base for whaling and sealing, with factories being built on East Falkland and South Georgia, but these industries ended, leaving the wool trade as the mainstay of the islands ' economy.
The Falkland Islands have a GDP of $ 105 million, and a per capita GDP of $ 35, 400 ( 2002 estimate ) placing the islands on a par with the United Kingdom ( GDP per capita of $ 35, 200 – 2009 estimate ).
The Falkland Islands have two airports with paved runways.
Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.
For the next 20 years, many could find only low-paid work with the island government and the only available employment overseas for the islanders was restricted to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, a period during which the island was often referred to as the “ South Atlantic Alcatraz ”.
The United Kingdom formally annexed the South Sandwich Islands through the 1908 Letters Patent, grouping them with other British-held territory in Antarctica as the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
Geologically, the island consists of gneiss and argillaceous schists, with no trace of fossils, showing that the island is, like the Falkland Islands, a surviving fragment of some greater land-mass now vanished, most probably indicating a former extension of the Andean system.
Since bilateral relations with Argentina are considered a priority, Uruguay denies clearance to Falkland Islands bound British naval vessels and prevents them from calling in at Uruguayan territories and ports for supplies and fuel.
On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.
J & E Hall of Dartford, England outfitted the ' SS Selembria ' with a vapor compression system to bring 30, 000 carcasses of mutton from the Falkland Islands in 1886.
He built a part of Falkland Palace, Great Halls at Stirling and Edinburgh castles, and furnished his palaces with tapestries.
Efforts to stem the problems came to naught when in 1982 Argentina came into conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands.
As was customary, if the King died first, the Dowager of Scotland would have for her lifetime her jointure houses of Falkland Palace, Stirling Castle, Dingwall Castle, and Threave, with the rentals of the corresponding Earldoms and Lordships.
She saw action at Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and the Battle of Jutland, where she blew up and sank after taking a hit from SMS Lützow, with the loss of 1, 026 crew.
There are a number of insular species, including the Clarion Wren and Socorro Wren from the Revillagigedo Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and the Cobb's Wren in the Falkland Islands, but few Caribbean islands have a species of wren, with only the Southern House Wren in the Lesser Antilles, the Cozumel Wren of Cozumel Island, and the highly restricted Zapata Wren in a single swamp in Cuba.
In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen — the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.

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