North Arm is a settlement in

Lafonia Lafonia is a peninsula forming the southern part of East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands. Geography and geology Shaped like the letter "E", it is joined to the northern part of the island by an isthmus that is almost wide. Were ...

, the southern part of

East Falkland East Falkland ( es, Isla Soledad) is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, having an area of or 54% of the total area of the Falklands. The island consists of two main land masses, of which the more southerly is known as La ...

, in 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 ...

, It is on the south coast, on the shore of the Bay of Harbours, and overlooks

Sea Lion 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,

in the distance. In 2007, the population was 25 people, six of them children. It is the largest settlement on East Falkland south of

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 ...

. North Arm is from

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, and it takes four and a half hours to drive there.Wigglesworth, Angela. (1992) ''Falkland People''. Pub. Peter Owen. . :''"In the 1893-4 season, the steam shearing machine was introduced to the

Falkland Islands Company The Falkland Islands Company Ltd is a diversified goods and services company owned by FIH Group. Known locally as FIC, it was founded in 1851 and was granted a royal charter to trade in 1852 by Queen Victoria. It was originally founded by Samuel ...

farm at North Arm.''" Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'' Despite this hand shearing continued at many other farms until the early 1960s. North Arm was owned by the

until 1991, when it was sold to the government. There is a school, a community centre and a shop that opens for three hours a week. The North Arm farm itself is in size.

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