San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern

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, lying south of Port San Carlos on

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. It is sometimes nicknamed "JB" after a former owner, Jack Bonner. The settlement consists of a number of properties including a dwelling with a small cafe which also provides craft facilities. As noted in the history section, there is a small museum that pays homage to the Falklands Conflict as well as local nature and culture.

History

The settlement is named after the ship ''San Carlos'', which visited in May 1768. San Carlos grew in the early twentieth century around a factory which froze

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carcasses. In 1982 San Carlos was the main

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during the

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, when it was codenamed "Blue Beach". A

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and the Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos commemorate that period.

History

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