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Geographic Locations > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Falkland Islands
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Falkland Islands
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Atlantic Islands > Falkland Islands

Preferred term

Falkland Islands  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A British colony in the Atlantic Islands, comprising two principal islands, East Falkland and West Falkland. Its capital is Stanley. Discovered in 1592, it was not occupied until the French settled there briefly in 1764. Later the English settled there but were expelled by the Spanish in 1770. The Falklands were claimed by Argentina but were occupied in 1833 by the British who, after an April 1982 invasion by Argentina, regained them in June. The islands were named by British Captain John Strong in 1690 for the fifth Viscount Falkland who financed Strong's expedition. The Spanish name for the islands, Malvinas, is from the French Malouins, inhabitants of St. Malo who attempted to colonize the islands in 1764. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p389 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p182)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Malvinas

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In other languages

  • Iles Falkland

    French

  • Îles Falkland
  • Iles Malouines
  • Îles Malouines
  • Malouines

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-QBRW9Z6F-G

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