There are around 1,500 UK military personnel stationed on the Falkland Islands at any one time. The UK also holds sovereignty over South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands, located some 1,500km ...

The East Falkland and South Falkland basins represent highly prospective, untested portions of an extensive basin complex that extended from Argentina to South Africa prior to the breakup of Gondwana.

The Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic, is a broken puzzle with more than 778 island pieces. (Opponents to U.K. sovereignty refer to the country as the Malvinas ...

The 52 Places Traveler was one of four tourists on the remote Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas. But there were thousands of penguins.

I began my trip three days ago in the capital of Stanley, on East Falkland Island. Stanley, population 2,115, is a tidy village of backyard gardens and painted tin roofs.

Yet getting humans back and forth to East Falkland Island where Stanley is located – what folks like the Rendells who live on the many remote islets refer to as “the mainland” – is surprisingly easy.

The islands consist of two larger islands—East Falkland and West Falkland—and 776 smaller islands. As of the 2012 census, the official population of the islands was 2,932.

Later, while touring around East Falkland, local guide Linda Buckland told me “Darwin always wrote the warrah was tame and you could get close to it. And very easy to kill and preserve.” ...

The 14,000-year record from East Falkland revealed that for 9,000 years before the arrival of seabirds, the region was dominated by low levels of grasses, a heathland of ferns and dwarf Ericaceous ...

Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a mystery.