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| Motto: Desire the right | |||||
| Official language | English | ||||
| Capital | Port Stanley | ||||
| Governor | Howard Pearce | ||||
| Chief Executive | Chris Simpkins | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | not ranked 12,173 kmē - | ||||
| Population - Total ( 2003 E) - DensityIf you were linked from a country article: the density there is based on land area, see below Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. However it is most frequently applied to living organisms. Population density is usually ex | not rankedThis is a list of countries by population . The data are from the CIA World Factbook 2003 and although not always quite up to date, at least roughly accurate. In the main list dependent or occupied areas are listed under the country which governs the area 2,967 0.24/kmē | ||||
| CurrencyFor exchange rates, see here. A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and services. It is a form of money, where money is defined as a medium of exchange rather than e. a store of value. A currency zone is a country or region | Falkland poundAs a unit of currency, the term pound originates from the value of a Troy pound weight ( Latin libra , of high purity silver, and is the currency unit of a number of countries: Cyprus see Cyprus Pound Egypt Gibraltar Lebanon Malta Syria see Syrian pound U (FKP; fixed to GBP) | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC also sometimes referred to as Zulu time , the basis for civil time differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. Time zones around the world are expressed as positi -4 ( DST -3) | ||||
| National anthem | God Save the Queen | ||||
| Internet TLD | .FK | ||||
| Calling Code | 500 | ||||
Main article: History of the Falkland Islands
Several claims have been made that numerous navigators have sighted the Falkland Islands for the first time but the Dutch sailor Sebald de Weert has been credited with the first sighting in 1600, though the British and Spanish maintain their own respective explorers discovered the islands earlier. Some older maps, particularly Dutch ones, used the name 'Sebald Islands' for a while. They remained practically unsettled until the 19th century. Argentina set up a penal colony in the islands in 1820, and in 1829 named Luis Vernet as the islands' governor, in order to colonise them. The United Kingdom took the islands in 1833, but Argentina maintained its claim. Various tensions led to an Argentine invasion in 1982. The island was later retaken by the UK. See: Falklands War.
The islands contained no natives when the Europeans arrived, although there is some disputed evidence for earlier human visits. The most convincing of these is the Warrah (Canis antarcticus/Dusicyon australis), possibly descended from South American culpeo (used as hunting dogs by Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego). Now extinct, the warrah was a great nuisance towards early livestock. It is very unlikely that it reached the islands by itself.
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