North Arm is a settlement in
Lafonia, the southern part of
East Falkland, in the
Falkland Islands, It is on the south coast, on the shore of the
Bay of Harbours
The Bay of Harbours (Spanish: ''Bahia de los Abrigos'') is a bay/fjord on the south east coast of East Falkland. It is in Lafonia between Eagle Passage and the Adventure Sound, and forms the lower segment of the "E" of the peninsula. North Arm
...
, and overlooks
Sea Lion Island 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
Stanley, 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 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
Falkland Islands Company 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.
References
Populated places on East Falkland
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