* 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.

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* 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.

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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

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.

The United Kingdom and the Government of the Falkland Islands maintains that the Islanders have the right to determine the sovereignty of their birthplace.

The Falkland Islands does not have its own Bar or Law Society, and there is no differentiation between being a barrister or a solicitor ; the private practitioners being called legal practitioners.

The Legal Practitioners Ordinance defines who can hold themselves out as being a legal practitioner and therefore have rights of audience before the Falkland Islands courts.

The Falkland Islands have the highest standard of living in South America.

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 do not have a central bank but the Standard Chartered Bank has a single branch in Stanley that offers retail, commercial and wholesale banking facilities.

The Falkland Islands do not have a merchant navy.

The Falkland Islands Government Air Service ( FIGAS ) operates Islander aircraft that can use the grass airstrips that most settlements have.

The following have served as Commander British Forces Falkland Islands / South Atlantic Islands:

No human casualties from mines or UXO have been reported in the Falkland Islands since 1984, and no civilian mine casualties have ever occurred on the islands.

Argentina thus argues that, in the case of the Falkland Islands, the principle of territorial integrity should have precedence over self-determination.

He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....

The British people have become uneasily aware that their American allies would prefer the Falkland Islands to pass out of Britain's possession into hands which, if not wholly American, might be amenable to American control.

The Falkland Islands have a large non-native born population, mainly from Britain, but also from Saint Helena.

Southernmost South America ( Tierra del Fuego where it abuts the Drake Passage and such subantarctic islands such as the South Shetland Islands and the Falkland Islands have tundra climates of slight thermal range in which no month is as warm as. These subantarctic lowlands are found closer to the equator than the coastal tundras of the Arctic basin.

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.

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.

Falkland Islanders have also been nicknamed " Kelpers " from time to time, from collecting seaweed partly for this purpose.

Some military aerodromes have passenger facilities ; for example RAF Brize Norton in England has a terminal used by passengers for the Royal Air Force's flights by TriStar to the Falkland Islands.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Falkland Islands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland ( in Spanish Isla Gran Malvina and Isla Soledad respectively ), and about 776 small islands.

A squid trawler, and a cruise ship in Port William, Falkland Islands | Port William representing two trends in recent economic development

There are two seaports in the Falkland Islands, Stanley ( East Falkland ) and Fox Bay ( West Falkland ).

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.

He said whilst he wanted a peaceful solution, the resolution's meaning " seems to be of a negotiated settlement or compromise between two incompatible positions -— between the position which exists in international law, that the Falkland Islands and their dependencies are British sovereign territory and some other position altogether ...

In 1999, the two countries agreed to normalize travel to the Falkland Islands () from the mainland and resumed direct flights.

On the arrival of the deputation at the Treaty of Uxbridge, on 4 January, officers of the Parliamentary army stopped the coaches and searched the gentlemen ; and they found upon the latter " two scandalous books arraigning the proceedings of the House ," and letters with ciphers to Lord Viscount Falkland and the Lord Spencer.

On 8 December 1914, Spee's force attempted a raid on the coaling station at Stanley in the Falkland Islands, unaware that the previous month the British had sent two modern fast battlecruisers HMS Inflexible and HMS Invincible to protect the islands and avenge the defeat at Coronel, and there were also five cruisers, HMS Carnarvon, HMS Cornwall, HMS Kent, HMS Bristol and HMS Glasgow, at the Stanley naval base.

In the ensuing Battle of the Falkland Islands, Spee's flagship, Scharnhorst, together with Gneisenau, Nürnberg and SMS Leipzig were all lost, together with some 2, 200 German sailors, including Spee himself and his two sons.

On 6 November, the two ships met and proceeded slowly towards the Falkland isles.

Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee — commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, and, the light cruisers, Dresden and, and three auxiliaries — attempted to raid the British supply base at Stanley on the Falkland Isles.

It has some 3250 students aged 16 – 18 mainly from central Hampshire but also teenagers from the British Forces who live on campus in one of the two boarding houses and mostly come from Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands.

Falkland wrote a Discourse of Infallibility, published in 1646 ( Thomason Tracts, E 361 ), reprinted in 1650, in 1651 ( E 634 ) edited by Triplet with replies, and in 1660 with the addition of two discourses on episcopacy by Falkland.

* May 25-North of the Falkland Islands, Argentinian Air Force A-4 Skyhawk bombers sink the British destroyer with two 1, 000-pound ( 454-kg ) bomb hits and two Argentinian Navy Super Étendard strike aircraft sink the container ship SS Atlantic Conveyor with two Exocet anti-ship missile hits.