This is a list of towns and settlements on the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...
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List
List of settlements by name, population, and island it is located on
Unsorted
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Ajax Bay (
East Falkland)
*Beaver Settlement (on
Beaver Island)
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Bluff Cove Settlement (
East Falkland)
*Bombilia House
*Burnside House
*Camp Verde (Campo Verde)
*Carcass Island Settlement (see
Port Patterson)
*Ceritos (Cerritos) (
East Falkland)
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Chartres Settlement (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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*Cranmer
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Darwin Settlement (
East Falkland)
*Dos Lomas
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Douglas Settlement (
Douglas Station) (
East Falkland)
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Dunnose Head Settlement (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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*Estancia House
*Fitzroy North (
East Falkland)
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Fitzroy Settlement (Fitzroy South) (
East Falkland)
*Foam Creek Settlement (Foam Creek House)
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Fox Bay East Settlement (East Settlement, Bahia Fox) (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Fox Bay West Settlement (West Settlement) (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Goose Green
Goose Green is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. It lies on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, south-southwest of Darwin. With a population of about 40, it is the third-largest s ...
Settlement (
East Falkland)
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Green Patch Settlement (
East Falkland)
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Hill Cove
Hill Cove is the third largest settlement on West Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, in the north-west. It is on the north coast, on the shore of Byron Sound, and overlooks Port Egmont
Port Egmont (Spanish: ''Puerto de la Cruzada''; French ...
(
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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*Hope Cottage
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Hope Place
Hope Place (known in Spanish as ''Valle Esperanza'') was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a British-born Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populate ...
(
Lafonia/
East Falkland, abandoned)
*Horseshoe Bay
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Johnson's Harbour (
East Falkland)
*Keppel Settlement (on
Keppel Island
Keppel Island ( es, Isla de la Vigia) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Saunders and Pebble islands, and near Golding Island to the north of West Falkland on Keppel Sound. It has an area of and its highest point, Mt. Keppel, is hi ...
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*Lively Settlement (on
Lively Island
Lively Island ( es, Isla Bougainville) is the largest of the Lively Island Group of the Falkland Islands, The island group lies east of East Falkland. Lively Island is the largest rat-free island in the Falklands, hence its importance to birdli ...
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Mare Harbour
Mare Harbour is a small settlement on East Falkland, on Choiseul Sound. It is mostly used as a port facility and depot for RAF Mount Pleasant, as well as a deepwater port used by the Royal Navy ships patrolling the South Atlantic and Antarctica, ...
Rancho
*Mariqueta (Mariquita)
*Mid Rancho
*New House of Glamis (
East Falkland)
*New Island Settlement (on
New Island
New Island ( es, Isla de Goicoechea) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north of Beaver Island. It is from Stanley and is long with an average width of . The highest point is . The northern and eastern coasts have high cliffs but the eas ...
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North Arm Settlement (
Lafonia/
East Falkland)
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Orqueta (Horqueta) (
East Falkland)
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Pebble Island Settlement (Pebble Island Farm) (on
Pebble Island
Pebble Island is one of the Falkland Islands, situated north of West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by th ...
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*Piedra Sola
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Port Albemarle (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Port Egmont
Port Egmont (Spanish: ''Puerto de la Cruzada''; French: ''Poil de la Croisade'') was the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, on Saunders Island off West Falkland, and is named after the Earl of Egmont.
Toponym
The original name ...
(on
Saunders Island) (abandoned)
*Port Harriet (
East Falkland)
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Port Howard
Port Howard (Spanish/Argentine name: ''Puerto Mitre''; sometimes ''Puerto Howard'' in Spanish) is the largest settlement on West Falkland (unless Fox Bay is taken as one settlement, instead of two). It is in the east of the island, on an inlet o ...
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West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Port Louis Settlement (Puerto Luis, Anson's Harbour),
Port St. Louis, Puerto Soledad) (
East Falkland)
*Port Louis South (
East Falkland?)
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Port Patterson (
Carcass island
Carcass Island ( es, Isla del Rosario) is the largest of the West Point Island Group of the Falkland Islands.
Description
It lies north-west of West Falkland and south-east of the Jason Islands. It is in length, has a maximum width of , and i ...
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Port San Carlos Settlement (
East Falkland)
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Port Stephens Settlement (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Port William (
East Falkland)
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RAF Mount Pleasant (Air Force Base) (
East Falkland)
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Rincon Grande Settlement (
East Falkland)
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Roy Cove Settlement (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Salvador (Salvador Settlement Corrall) (
East Falkland)
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San Carlos (San Carlos Estate) (
East Falkland)
*Sand Fountain (Cantera de Arena)
*Saunders Island Settlement (on
Saunders Island)
*Sealion Island Settlement (on
Sealion Island
Sea Lion Island ( es, Isla de los Leones Marinos) is the largest of the Sea Lion Island Group of the Falkland Islands. It is in area. and lies southeast of Lafonia ( East Falkland). It was designated a Ramsar site on 24 September 2001, ...
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*Speedwell Island Settlement (on
Speedwell Island)
*Spring Point Settlement (
West Falkland
West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...
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Stanley
Stanley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
* ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film
* ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy
* ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short
* ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...
(Port Stanley) (capital) (
East Falkland)
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Teal Inlet Settlement (Evelyn Station) (
East Falkland)
*Tranquilidad
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Volunteer Point
Volunteer Point is a headland on the east coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, north-northeast of Stanley, and east of Johnson's Harbour and Berkeley Sound. It lies at the end of a narrow peninsula, which protects Volunteer Lagoon. It ...
(
East Falkland)
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Walker Creek (
Lafonia/
East Falkland)
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Weddell Settlement
Weddell Settlement is the only settlement on Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands, situated on the east coast of the island at the head of the sheltered Gull Harbour (formerly ''Great Harbour''.), part of Queen Charlotte Bay. It is located at ...
(on
Weddell Island
Weddell Island ( es, Isla San José) is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is situated west-northwest of South Georgia Island, north of Livingston Island, northeast of Ca ...
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*Westpoint Island Settlement (on
Westpoint Island
West Point Island (originally known as Albatross Island; es, Isla Remolinos) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the north-west corner of the archipelago. It has an area of and boasts some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the Falkl ...
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See also
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List of Argentine names for the Falklands Islands
This is a list of English and Spanish language placenames in the Falkland Islands. Most of the Spanish language names are quite different in origin to their English equivalents, and many have religious resonances. Some names were given by the ...
{{South America in topic, List of cities in
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...
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