A chain of mountains run along the northern parts of this island group's two main islands, reaching a maximum height of 2,312 feet at Mount Usborne.
A chain of mountains run along the northern parts of this island group's two main islands, reaching a maximum height of 2,312 feet at Mount Usborne. Home to no indigenous land mammals, its government also administers the Shag and Clerke rocks, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands. Consisting of about 200 small islands and the East and West main islands, one of its names was given to it by John Strong, who made the first recorded landing there in 1690, while its South American name comes from the port of St. Malo. With capital at Stanley, FTP, what are these islands which in 1982 became the focus of an unoffical war between Great Britain and Argentina?
A chain of mountains run along the northern parts of this island group's two main islands, reaching a maximum height of 2,312 feet at Mount Usborne.
Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas