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  Argentina encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Argentina politics and officials, Argentinian History. Travel to ...
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.
It is thought this canid was brought to the island by humans, although it may have reached the islands by itself via a land bridge during the last ice age.
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.
www.argentinaiworld.com /wiki-Falkland_Islands   (3143 words)

  
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It's the gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance: losing his ship in the ice, drifting helplessly across the Weddell Sea, and finally reaching Elephant Island, from where he sailed 800 miles to get help for his stranded men.
A vivid history of the Galapagos and the role of the islands as a crucible of evolutionary ideas written by a Pulitzer Prize winner.
It covers not just Darwin, but the discovery of the islands, visits of Hancock and Beebe, the influence of the United States during WWII and the establishment of the national park.
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 Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris: Antarctica - South Georgia 2007
Shingle Cove in the NW corner of Iceberg Bay on the south coast of Coronation Island was named for the shingle on the landing beach at the south shore of the cove.
Petermann Island, at 65° S in the southern part of the Lemaire Channel, has a large colony of Adelies and Gentoos with Blue-eyed Shag colonies on the edges.
Deception Island in the South Shetlands is one of the most exciting islands, as it is very active volcanically.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Area
note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
note: Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands, including Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Desirade, Iles des Saintes (2), Saint-Barthelemy, Iles de la Petite Terre, and Saint-Martin (French part of the island of Saint Martin)
note: includes St. Helena Island, Ascension, and the island group of Tristan da Cunha, which consists of Tristan da Cunha Island, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, and the three Nightingale Islands
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 sites in antarctica -- sites in antarctica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Regional chapters describe all of the subantarctic islands, in addition to most regularly visited sites in Antarctica, and are accompanied by maps of each area and photographs of each locale.
And don't get lost by forgetting why you started searching for "antarctica" to begin with, and start randomly looking for various "antarctica" sites.
Regional: Polar Regions: Travel and Tourism Sites Antarctica Expeditions Brazilian couple describes their expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula, Las Malvinas, South Georgia, Weddell Sea and the...
www.antarcticart.com /sitesinantarctica   (3131 words)

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