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	Falkland Islands - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Port Louis, formerly the seat of government, is at the head of Berkeley Sound, but the anchorage there having been found rather too exposed, about the year 1844 a town was laid out, and the necessary public buildings were erected on Stanley Harbour, a sheltered recess within Port William.
		The Falkland Islands consist entirely, so far as is known, of the older Palaeozoic rocks, Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian, slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted, in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone, and on the ridges hardened sandstone passing into the conspicuous white quartzites.
		The Falkland Islands are a crown colony, with a governor and executive and legislative councils.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FA/FALKLAND_ISLANDS.htm (2482 words)

	Falkland Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Argentina has continued to claim sovereignty over the islands, and the dispute was used by the military junta dictatorship as an excuse to invade and briefly occupy the islands before being defeated in the two-month-long undeclared Falklands War in 1982 by a United Kingdom task force which returned the islands to British control.
		The largest company in the islands is the Falkland Islands Company, a publicly quoted company on the London Stock Exchange and responsible for the majority of the economic activity on the islands, though its farms were sold in 1991 to the Falkland Islands Government.
		The extra-provincial Anglican parish of the Falkland Islands is under the direct jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Falkland_Islands (2943 words)

	Port Louis - shipping port louis australia
		Port Louis was founded in 1735 by the French, under the governor Mahé de La Bourdonnais.
		Port Louis is the busiest city of the country.
		Currently, port louis the majority of the population, almost 50 percent, is of Indian origin, with the rest from Africa and a minority of Chinese and Eurasians.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-Africa-L---P/Port-Louis.html (628 words)

	Nationaism and the Falkland Island War
		The Argentineans argue that the islands were most likely discovered by Spain, citing Spanish dominance of the region in the late 15th and early 16th centuries and by the depiction of the Malivinas on charts from the Spanish navigators, Pedro Reinell in 1522-3, Diego Rivero in the 1520's and Diego Gutierrez in 1561.
		In December 1914, The Battle of the Falkland Islands, fought between Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee of the Royal Navy, and Admiral Spee of Germany was a British victory for the squadron basing from the islands (Irving p 3).
		Economically the islands were becoming a drain on the treasury, and politically Britain was trying to sever herself from her colonial past to concentrate more on the EC and NATO in the Eurocentric atmosphere of the early 1980's.
	www.mindspring.com /~koz/papers/FalklandPaper.html (5713 words)

	Falkland Islands :: Any Travels
		Falkland (Islas Malvinas) is famous for the war Argentina and the United Kingdom had over the islands.
		Falklanders are also exceptionally hospitable, often welcoming visitors into their homes for a 'smoko,' the traditional midmorning tea or coffee break.
		Port Howard is a sheep farming settlement from which the 200,000-acre Port Howard farm is operates.
	www.anytravels.com /south_america/falklands/overview.html (1534 words)

	The Falklands War (1982) / La Guerra de Las Malvinas (1982)
		The government of the Falkland Islands administers the British dependent territories of South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, and the Shag and Clerke rocks, lying from 700 to 2,000 miles (1,100 to 3,200 km) to the east and southeast of the Falklands.
		The total population of the islands was estimated at 2100 (in 1991) and 2967 in July 2003.
		The fact that the islands are 100% populated by English speaking "Kelpers" (about 1800 of them then, and over 2300 today), who preferred to remain under British rule according to the falkland islands government official statements, was never mentioned to us.
	www.yendor.com /vanished/falklands-war.html (3083 words)

	Port Louis, Mauritius
		Port Louis, estimated population 135,371 (1996), is the capital of Mauritius.
		It is a port on the Indian Ocean, and the nation's largest city.
		Port Louis was founded in 1735 by the French.
	www.creekin.net /c3442-n120-port-louis-mauritius.html (162 words)

	Port Louis, Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For a time, the town became the Spanish capital of the islands, which they claimed as part of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata.
		After a dispute, the United States declared the Falkland Islands free from any power, and the USS Lexington destroyed Port Louis in 1832.
		After they transferred the administration to Port Stanley in 1845, it became the quiet sheep farming settlement it is today, known for its nineteenth century houses, waterfowl and wading birds.
	port-louis-falkland-islands.mindbit.com (181 words)

	East Falkland Island, Falkland Islands
		East Falkland Island is the primary island in the archipelago, and home to the most populated settlements.
		Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, is located on East Falkland and is the usual entry point for most visitors.
		The island covers 7039.5sq.km/4364.5sq.mi of mainly rugged and hilly terrain with the exception of the Lefonia plain in the south.
	www.planetware.com /falkland-islands/east-falkland-island-flk-fl-ef.htm (96 words)

	Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
		Port Stanley, also known as Stanley (briefly renamed Puerto Argentino during the Argentine occupation in the Falklands War), is the capital and only town in the Falkland Islands, located on the isle of East Falkland.
		Attractions include the Falkland Islands Museum, Government House, built in 1845 and home to the Governor of the Falkland Islands, a golf course, Christ Church Cathedral, the southernmost in the world and known for its whalebone arch, a totem pole, several war memorials and the shipwrecks in its harbour.
		Stanley is also home to the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station and greenhouses where some of the islands' vegetables are grown.
	creekin.net /c3444-n64-port-stanley-falkland-islands.html (455 words)

	Falklands Corruption. Falkland Islands Government guilty in Supreme Court for Human Rights Abuse
		The Falkland Islands Government were very hostile towards Bingham’s report, and he was told by Councillor Mike Summers and Chief Executive Andrew Gurr that such a report could be very damaging to the Falklands economy which depended on commercial fishing.
		The Falkland Islands Government had notified the public that Bingham was a convicted burglar, knowing full well that in such a small community this would make him and his family the subject of hate and retaliation.
		By now it was increasingly clear to the world that Falklands penguins were in desperate trouble - the loss of 5 million penguins since the start of commercial fishing, beaches littered with penguins that had died from starvation, the annual starvation of penguin chicks, and the government’s refusal to protect penguins from commercial fishing.
	www.falklands.net /FalklandsCorruption.shtml (5943 words)

	Falkland Islands History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Falkland Islands are situated in the South Atlantic, 400 miles form the coast of South America
		The Falkland Islands are made up of some 700 hundred islands, the main two being East and West Falklands, with the total land mass covering around 4,700 sq miles, or about the same size as Wales.
		Port Louis became the first British settlement in 1840, having been previously populated by the French and Spanish.
	www.falklandislandsholidays.com /about/history.html (216 words)

	Antarctica Tours - Falkland Islands
		The total population of the islands is about 2,500; over half of the residents live in the Falklands' capital of Stanley.
		East and West Falkland make up the majority of the total landmass, but there are over seven hundred islands to explore in the area, including the tiny Sea Lion Island.
		The island is scattered with farmland, the oldest is found at Port Howard.
	www.adventure-life.com /antarctica/falkland.php (466 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - Falkland Islands
		The first sheep on the Falkland Islands are thought to have been those brought by French settlers to Port Louis in 1764, but it was not until almost eighty years later that the first attempts at commercial farming took place.
		Although machine shears had been introduced by the Falkland Islands Company as early as 1893 they were not a success and only began to come into general use in the 1950s and 60s.
		Across the huge distances of the Falklands landscape, sheep being gathered for shearing or moved to new ground had to be driven, often for many miles, by shepherds on horseback assisted by well-trained dogs.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/fi/sheepfarming.htm (600 words)

	Falkland Islands Travel Guide
		Falkland Islands comprises of two main islands and hundreds of tiny outlying islands.
		The Falkland Islands is known for its picture perfect islands, picturesque small towns, and unique flora and fauna.
		Pebble Island is world-famous for penguins and Southern sea lions.
	travelotica.com /travelguide/63/falkland-islands/index.htm (195 words)

	History of Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Falkland Islands were first seen by Davis in the year 1592 and Sir Richard Hawkins sailed along their north shore in 1594.
		Lafone's interest in Lafonia, as the peninsula came to be called, was purchased for 30,000 by the Falkland Islands Company, which had been incorporated by charter in the same year.
		Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982.
	www.historyofnations.net /southamerica/falklandislands.html (641 words)

	Falkland Islands Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1765 Captain John Byron was dispatched by the British Government to take formal possession of the Islands at Port Egmont on West Falkland, for the "Crown of Great Britain, his heirs and successors." A year earlier a Frenchman had established a settlement on East Falkland at Port Louis.
		In 1824 a Frenchman, Louis Vernet, attempted to re-establish a settlement at Port Louis with the blessing of the Buenos Aires Government.
		The issue was further complicated when the USA, using the USS "Lexington", declared Vernet a pirate and destroyed Port Louis ensuring that the Islands reverted to an unpopulated state in 1831.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /2a.htm (378 words)

	Falkland Islands
		It is thought that Patagonian Indians may have reached the islands by canoe, but when the Europeans encountered the islands in the seventeenth century, they were uninhabited.
		The first settlement was by the French, at Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764.
		The Falklands are governed as a colony of the United Kingdom.
	www.everyculture.com /Cr-Ga/Falkland-Islands.html (947 words)

	Falkland Islands - A history of the 1982 conflict
		Falkland Islands - A history of the 1982 conflict
		This timeline traces the history of the Falkland Islands from their discovery to the events leading up to the conflict in 1982.
		In December the USS Lexington attacks Puerto Soledad and proclaims the islands free of all Government.
	www.raf.mod.uk /falklands/linepre1982.html (464 words)

	Lonely Planet
		Although there's some evidence that Patagonian Indians reached the Falklands in rudimentary canoes, the islands were uninhabited when Europeans began to frequent the South Atlantic in the 17th century.
		Under the Brits, the Falklands languished in isolation until the mid-19th century, when sheep ranching replaced cattle and wool became an important export commodity.
		The English-owned Falkland Islands Company swallowed most of the island's best land, and all remaining pastoral land was occupied by immigrant shepherds by the 1870s.
	www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/Falkland-Islands/historyandculture.aspx (811 words)

	Port Louis, Falkland Islands
		Falkland Islands > Falkland Islands > East Falkland Island
		Port Louis is under an hours drive from Stanley on the north coast of East Falkland Island.
		It is a good base for exploring the surrounding area, which boats some spectacular scenery and is home to three types of penguins.
	www.planetware.com /falkland-islands/port-louis-flk-fl-pl.htm (63 words)

	Onshore – Fossils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Darwin was the first scientist to examine fossils in the Falkland Islands.
		Falkland Islands fossils are most prolific in the Devonian Fox Bay Formation, which contains trilobites, crinoids and lots of brachiopods.
		Some of the boulders present in the Fitzroy Tillite Formation consist of limestone, and were carried into the Falklands area from other parts of Gondwana; a few contain fossils archaeocyatha, animals rather like primitive sponges.
	www.bgs.ac.uk /falklands-oil/onshore/Onshore_fossils.htm (354 words)

	The Falkland Islands Campaign of 1982: A Case Study And Lessons For
		The Falkland Islands Campaign of 1982: A Case Study And Lessons For
		retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982.
		remained, and the islands were administered as a crown colony.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1995/KAA.htm (2894 words)

	Falkland Islands Genealogy Project
		The Falkland Islands are a British dependent territory.
		The Falkland Islands are also claimed by Argentina, please also visit the Argentina website.
		The purpose of this list is for the exchange of Genealogy and Historical information related to the Falkland Islands.
	britishislesgenweb.org /~falklandislands (1189 words)

	Open Directory - Regional:South America:Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After years of varied settlements, Britain resumed occupation and asserted her full rights in the Falklands with a naval garrison at Port Louis in 1833.
		The position of the United Nations on the question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) is contained in General Assembly resolution 31/49 of 1 December 1976 and subsequent resolutions of the General Assembly.
		Whatever views you have, whether Falklands or Malvinas, when you browse through this category you will find that the islanders have embraced Internet technology for presenting themselves and their views to the world.
	dmoz.org /Regional/South_America/Falkland_Islands/desc.html (387 words)

	LongIslandFarm
		Long Island is situated approximately 20 miles from Stanley and is a 22,000 acre sheep farm which belongs to 6
		They farm using skilled sheep dogs and Falkland Island bred horses, milk their own cows, make their own bread, butter and cream and use the traditional fuel peat which is a tradition that has nearly died out in the Falklands.
		There will be a sheep shearing demonstration and an opportunity to buy some genuine Falkland wool (rated as some of the finest wool in the world).
	www.falklandtravel.com /LongIslandFarm.htm (265 words)

	Beginner's Guide to Falkland Islands
		Falkland Islands - Overview and History: Food & Drink in the Falkands
		Falkland Islands - Activities and Attractions: Don't-Miss Attractions of the Falkland Islands
		Falkland Islands - Major Cities and Regions Overview
	beginnersguide.com /falkland-islands (369 words)

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