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	Falkland Islands - MSN Encarta
		Geologically, the Falkland Islands are a part of Patagonia in Argentina, being connected with the mainland by a raised submarine plateau.
		The low-lying areas of the Falklands are composed of clay, slate, and soft sandstone, and the hills and ridges are formed of hard sandstone and white quartzite.
		A lighthouse is maintained at Cape Pembroke, East Falkland, near Stanley (2001 population, 2,000), the chief town and main port.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578569/Falkland_Islands.html (890 words)

	Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of Sir Henry Cary, afterwards 1st Viscount Falkland, a member of an ancient Devon family, who was lord deputy of Ireland from 1622 to 1629, and of his wife Elizabeth, was born either in 1609 or 1610, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Falkland fought for the king at the Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642) and at the siege of Gloucester.
		He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son Lucius, 3rd Viscount Falkland, his male descent becoming extinct in the person of Anthony, 5th viscount, in 1694, when the viscounty passed to Lucius Henry (1687 - 1730), a descendant of the first viscount and his direct descendants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Cary,_2nd_Viscount_Falkland (1290 words)

	Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount, 1610?-1643, English statesman and literary figure.
		In despair at the prospect of the civil war continuing, he is supposed to have deliberately allowed himself to be killed at the battle of Newbury.
		A poet in his own right, Falkland was also a liberal patron of many of his literary contemporaries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-falklandl1.html (224 words)

	Falkland Islands - A history of the 1982 conflict
		The Falklands Conflict (2 April to 14 June 1982), was a unique period in the history of Britain and Argentina.
		A number of smaller islands to the east and southeast, while legally separate from the Falklands, are administered from the capital of the Falkland Islands at Stanley.
		But the Falklands were not inhabited by a group of such people who wanted to get out from under white rule; the Falkland Islanders were white and their elected representatives repeatedly declared that they wished to remain a colony of Britain.
	www.raf.mod.uk /falklands/preface.html (1339 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Possibly through his father’s acquaintance with the Duke of Clarence during their naval careers, Falkland became sufficiently intimate with the royal household to be appointed lord of the bedchamber and to marry the natural daughter of the duke after the latter succeeded to the throne as William IV in 1830.
		Falkland also launched his political career in 1830 by publishing a pamphlet advocating parliamentary reform; the following year he sat in the House of Lords as a representative peer for Scotland and was created gch.
		Falkland brought matters to a head when he incautiously appointed to the legislative and executive councils Mather Byles Almon*, Johnston’s brother-in-law and a prominent Conservative merchant and banker.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39545 (1189 words)

	StampTraders.com -- Falkland Islands
		Falkland Islands locates about three hundred miles (480 kilometers) east of the Strait of Magellan, near the tip of South America.
		The main islands are East Falkland, which is 90 miles (145 kilometers) by 55 miles (89 kilometers), and West Falkland, which is 80 miles (129 kilometers) by 45 miles (72 kilometers).
		The Falkland Island coat of arms in a white disk centered on the outer half of the flag.
	www.stamptraders.com /falkland/factsheet.html (985 words)

	The Falkland Islands War
		The Falkland Islands are a group of islands in the south Atlantic.
		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.
		Consequently the Falklands, a distant and relatively unimportant group of islands were not in their focus despite their gaining independence from Spain.
	www.ability.org.uk /falklands-war.html (2165 words)

	Henry Cary and South Falkland: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Falkland's colonial promoters made generous offers of land to those who would settle and work in the fishery.
		Tanfield was probably a cousin of Falkland's wife.
		Settlement at Renews seems to have been continuous from this period and, if it was, then South Falkland was not a complete failure as a colonial effort, even if it failed to turn a profit for its aristocratic backer.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /exploration/falkland.html (326 words)

	The O'Brien Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Viscounts display nine silver balls on a circlet in an heraldic representation of their coronet.
		Even if a Viscount has a secondary title of baron, this is not used by his heir and all his children are simply 'Hons'.
		Viscount Hereford is the premier Viscount in England.
	www.obrienclan.com /peerage/viscount.htm (184 words)

	pjallittle Falkland Islands Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		Just north of mainland West Falkland, Saunders Island was the site of the first British garrison on the Falklands, built in 1765, and it was their ousting by the Spanish in 1767 that nearly caused a war between the two countries.
		Falklanders are also exceptionally hospitable, often welcoming visitors into their homes for a 'smoko,' the traditional midmorning tea or coffee break.
		The Battle for the Falklands is a cool assessment of the politics and strategy of the 1982 war by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/eb84/944 (3580 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Falkland Islands Economic Study of 1982 (which updated an earlier study by Lord Shackleton in 1975) recognised the international conservation importance of the Falklands and recommended the employment of a permanent scientific officer for conservation matters (Oldfield, 1987).
		East Falkland is divided into two large land blocks, connected by a narrow land bridge the southern block is dominated by the plain of Lafonia, an area of gentle relief.
		The Falklands are thought to have been discovered in 1592 by the English Captain, John Davis; the first recorded landing was in 1690 by Captain John Strong who named the islands after Viscount Falkland, then Treasurer of the British navy.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/country/flk.html (1295 words)

	Nationaism and the Falkland Island War
		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).
		When the British narrowed their Falkland dependency claims to the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Group, Argentina again protested and reopened their sovereignty claim again to be repulsed by the British as the islanders had made clear indications they wished to remain British (Hastings p 8).
		The Falkland Island Committees March 26, 1968, victory in Parliament that gained the islanders the final word in all negotiations, was the start of a series of roadblocks, thrown up by the islanders who had no desire to become Argentinean.
	www.mindspring.com /~koz/papers/FalklandPaper.html (5713 words)

	Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Falklands, located approximately 185 miles (480 kilometers) east of Argentina, consist of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, and over two hundred smaller islets.
		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)

	Corned Beef Raid on Embassy: British Patriotism and the Falkland Conflict
		Meanwhile, the English established a settlement of their own on the island of West Falkland in 1765.<7> In 1774 the British decided to leave the islands, while the Spanish maintained a settlement there until the collapse of the Spanish empire in the Americas.
		Haig’s mission was to try to keep the Falklands crisis from coming to blows.<15> He spent much of the time leading up to the British invasion of the islands shuttling back and forth between Great Britain and Argentina trying to accomplish that mission.
		The Falklands might as well have been the nearby, British-owned Channel Islands; it was easy to justify defending them.<27> Members of Parliament recognized this and took advantage of this history, "we have long learnt to make this island a secure home and stronghold, at any rate until very recent times.
	www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1998-9/Haney.htm (4161 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland (1610-1643)
		Falkland was not a great or original thinker, but he had an earnest and sincere desire to discover truth.
		By instinct, however, he was conservative and, by reason, he was driven to dread the tyranny of Presbyterianism in matters of belief more than he disliked the tyranny of the bishops in matters of observance.
		In fact, Falkland's ineffectiveness in action is by no means the least justification for the reverence in which he was generally held.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/vfalkland.html (787 words)

	The Falklands War (1982) / La Guerra de Las Malvinas (1982)
		The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) are a group of islands in the south Atlantic.
		The total population of the islands was estimated at 2100 (in 1991) and 2967 in July 2003.
		Due to the mounting pressures on the government, and mass union demonstrations in late March, the date of the invasion is moved earlier to April 2nd in an act of desperation.
	www.yendor.com /vanished/falklands-war.html (3083 words)

	Falklands Battle compilation
		Falkland Islands Governor Rex Hunt was informed by the British Government of a possible Argentine invasion on Wednesday 31 March.
		The invasion of the populated areas of the Falkland Islands was pre-empted by the invasion of South Georgia, located 1,390 kilometres east of the Falklands.
		As the fighting was coming to a close the Falklands Islanders on the eastern edge of Port Stanley were in imminent danger of being shot at by a platoon of a 3rd Infantry Regiment company as the conscripts and regulars steeled themselves for the final house-to-house battle near Government House.
	fs.huntingdon.edu /jlewis/syl/IRcomp/303-321Falklands82WarWiki.htm (14963 words)

	Falkland Islands - Air Safety Support International
		The Falkland Islands are an archipelago of approximately 780 islands located in the South Atlantic 770 km North East of Cape Horn.
		This settlement was withdrawn in 1774 and the Spanish settlement was withdrawn in 1811.
		The Falkland Islands have a growing economy which has diversified from its original dependence on textiles to include fishing and tourism which are now a major source of income.
	www.airsafety.aero /about/overseas_territories/falkland_islands (404 words)

	Falkland Islands Genealogy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Falkland Islands have had a complex history since their discovery, with France, Britain, Spain and Argentina all claiming possession and establishing as well as abandoning settlements on the islands.
		There is disputed evidence of prior settlement by humans, based on the existence of the Falkland Island fox, or Warrah, on the islands, as well as a scattering of undated artifacts including arrowheads and the remains of a canoe.
		The United Kingdom responded in turn by stating that, as an essential precondition for the fulfilment of UN Resolution 1514, regarding the de-colonization of all territories still under foreign occupation, the Falklanders first had to vote for the British withdrawal at a referendum to be held on the issue.
	britishislesgenweb.org /~falklandislands (1189 words)

	Falkland Islands - South Seas Companion Place
		The Falkland Islands are situated in the South Atlantic, approximately 400 kilometers east of the nearest point on the coast of Argentina, and are connected with Patagonia by an elevated submarine plateau.
		The largest is East Falkland, which is about 150 kilometers in length with an average width of 64 kilometers and a square area of 7770 square kilometers.
		East Falkland is near bisected by two deep fiords which leave the north and south of the connected by an isthmus just under 2.5 kilometers.
	southseas.nla.gov.au /biogs/P000067b.htm (631 words)

	LUCIUS CARY FALKLAND - Online Information article about LUCIUS CARY FALKLAND
		Catholic faith, to which it was now sought to attract Falkland himself, but his studies and reflections led him, under the See also:
		Lucius, 3rd Viscount Falkland, his male descent becoming See also:
		Anthony, 5th viscount, in 1694, when the viscounty passed to Lucius Henry (1687-1730), a descendant of the first viscount, and the present peer is his See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/FALKLAND_LUCIUS_CARY.html (2270 words)

	Travel Outward: Destinations: Falkland Islands, South America
		The residents of the Falkland Islands are typically decended from the British, and culture there--while unique in many ways--is, itself, British through and through.
		The Falkland Islands were uninhabited until the late 17th century, when the Europeans stumbled upon them during an exploration of the southern Atlantic.
		The Falklands are self-sufficiant except for the military, which is provided by the British and, itself, makes a large contribution to the local economy.
	traveloutward.com /destinations/south_am_ant/falklands.shtml (706 words)

	'A Little Conserva-tive' by Albert Jay Nock
		The date of his birth is uncertain; probably it was at some time in the year 1610; and he was killed in the battle of Newbury, September 20, 1643, while fighting on the royalist side.
		Falkland had a seat in the Long Parliament, which was divided on the specious issue of presbyterianism against episcopacy in the Church of England.
		Falkland was a great radical; he was never for a moment caught by the superficial aspect of things.
	www.lewrockwell.com /nock/nock7.html (3815 words)

	Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the elder son of Lucius Henry Charles Plantagenet Cary, 14th Viscount Falkland and Constance Mary Berry.
		Cary became Viscount Falkland in 1984 and sat in the House of Lords with the Social Democratic Party, later joining the Liberal Democrats.
		Viscount Falkland is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Cary,_15th_Viscount_Falkland (190 words)

	The amiable Falkland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, was one of the principal Cavaliers in the service of Charles I. He died at the Battle of Newbury on 20 September 1643.
		His name and exalted notion of honor were, it would appear, used by William Godwin as models for the hero-villain Count Ferdinando Falkland of The Adventures of Caleb Williams.
		Today Falkland's fame is sustained by his serving as one of the subjects of Ben Jonson's enduring tribute "To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Nobel Pair Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison," one of the first true odes in the English tradition.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/V3notes/falkland.html (199 words)

	Falkland Islands - 999 Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Falkland Islands is an archipelago in the South Atlantic continental shelf consisting of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, and a number of smaller islands.
		The Falkland Islands are a largely self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom but are claimed by Argentina to be part of its national territory.
		The sovereignty dispute was the source of the 1982 Falklands War, in which the islands were invaded and briefly occupied by Argentina.
	www.999falklandislands.com (503 words)

	Falkland Islands Info Portal - History Articles
		The Falkland Islands were discovered by John Davis on 14 August 1592 and became known as Davis Southern Land, although the Argentines assert that the discovery of the Falkland Islands was made by Estaban Comez, one of Magellan’s captains.
		Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands is threefold: the first is geographical; the second is based on the Papal Decree giving new lands in the Americas to Spain; the third is that she considers herself a successor to Spain as the territorial authority of the 18
		The Falkland Islanders are also actively investing in the fishing industry, both through commercial activity – running locally-registered fishing vessels and acting as agents for foreign boats – and government’s research and management programme which includes the maintenance of two armed fisheries vessels as protection against far eastern poachers.
	www.falklands.info /background/visitorsguide.html (5735 words)

	Falkland Islands Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first recorded landing in the Falkland Islands occurred in 1690 by an English captain, John Strong.
		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.
		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)

	thePeerage.com - Sir Henry Paget, 2nd Lord Paget of Beaudesert and others
		Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland was the son of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland and Elizabeth Tanfield.
		He was the son of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland and Letitia Morison.
		He was the son of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland and Elizabeth Tanfield.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2637.htm (539 words)

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