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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #144: The Falkland Islands Penguin Reserve.
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The world's largest nature reserve for penguins was created unintentionally.
The Falkland Islands were heavily land-mined in the Falklands War, making the beaches off-limits to humans and large predators. But penguins are not heavy enough to trigger the land mines, so the beaches became a safe haven for thousands of them.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #144: The Falkland Islands Penguin Reserve.
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Carnivorous ‘death ping pong balls’ discovered near remote UK island

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/10/carnivorous-death-ping-pong-balls-discovered-near-remote-uk-island-24665597/

Second post...still not sure what I'm doing..
White-tufted Grebe #FalklandIslands

#FotoVorschlag - Briefkästen

Photo theme: postboxes

This is the classic British design of pillar box, or free-standing postbox. Iron, cylindrical, bright red, and this one was in Stanley on the Falkland Islands.

The Royal Cypher indicates it's from the reign of George VI and therefore fairly rare as iron priority was given to World War II for a fair chunk of his reign.

#Photography #Falklands #FalklandIslands #Travel #PostBox #PillarBox #Stanley

It's a very bright, sunny day, with warm tones lighting the scene. We're looking at the wall of a building that fills the view close to us. The building has narrow, overlapping, horizontal wooden boards painted white white a small shadow under each one due to the the sun's high position overhead. The edge of a simple, white wooden-framed window can just be see in the top left and the ground is a textured concrete in beige. Framed within the shot, standing just in front of the building and close enough to take up three quarters of the height of the shot is a classic, red, British postbox. It's an iron cylinder about chest-high on an adult with a thick black base before the bold red takes over up to the top which has a flared cap. The large slot for this postbox is directly at us and there's a rectangular frame below where pickup times could be displayed although it's empty. A Royal Cypher displaying fancy lettering of GR with Roman numerals VI inside it indicates this was from during the reign of George VI. Black lettering "Post Office" is beneath the cypher.

Interesting video about the history of the Falklands from Wendover Productions:

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-why-britain-cares-so-much-about-the-falklands

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQWgd3guy8

#NebulaTV #WendoverProductions #FalklandIslands #Britain #Colonialism #Argentina

💙 Amour impérial aux Malouines !
Ce couple de cormorans impériaux s'offre un tendre "bec-à-bec" aux allures de "baiser" sur fond de vent salé et de romantisme sauvage.
📍 Île des Lions de mer, Falkland Islands
📸 Julie Halliday

#cormoranimpérial #birdlove #falklandislands #ornithologie #naturesauvage #OiseauxDuMonde #nature #2tout2rien

Saturday 14 June Liberation Day in Falkland Islands
On April 2nd 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Argentina asserted that the islands are Argentine territory.
#FalklandIslands #LiberationDayinFalklandIslands #OccasionalDigest

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#190 - https://boxd.it/Pes #2025MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #War #Drama #FalklandIslands #Movies Pretty good drama of the opening stages after much of the behind the scenes negotiations ended.

Travel Trivia: Falkland Islands has the most sheep per capita: about 500,000 sheep for just 3,000 people.

Discover more and find out how worldly you are at: https://app.bitwyze.org/pinpoint-where/place/CityofStanley

#travel #explore #quiz #education #entertainment #TravelTrivia #sheep #FalklandIslands #Malvinas

🖼️ Выява дня: Фалклендскія астравы, тапаграфічная карта.

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Magellanic penguins, Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands
© imageBROKER/Matthias Graben/Getty Images
#FalklandIslands #penguins #photography

After our tour of the battlefields we had plenty of time left to explore Stanley and we made use of this with a bit of a walk and admiration of the brightly-coloured roofs, a visit to the museum, some souvenir-purchasing, then a drink in a pub busy with tourists not just from our ship but also from Argentina.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Falklands #FalklandIslands #Stanley #Architecture

It's a warm, sunny day with barely a cloud in the deep blue sky. We're on a dry lawn looking slightly up a slope to a long building. It's made of grey stone and has a pale green roof. The building is two storeys high and comprises a long middle section with two smaller wings at ninety degrees at each end. From above it probably looks like a classic dog toy bone or a bow tie in shape. A flag pole is to the right with the flag hanging limp and curled around it indicating not a breath of wind.

We had another sea day after visiting the penguins at the nature reserve in Argentina's Punta Tombo and then we arrived at the Falkland Islands. We'd been warned beforehand that getting off the ship at the Falklands wasn't always possible because of the weather conditions but we were lucky enough to arrive on a gloriously sunny day.

After tendering ashore we headed off on an excursion of several hours visiting the battlefield locations from the 1982 Falklands War. Being from Portsmouth we both had memories of being in the crowds when the task force left and returned to the city, and a friend's dad served on HMS Hermes at the time.

The tour had several stops for photos and chats about battles, military attitudes, and anecdotes from our sarcastic guide (most of which went over the heads of the Americans on the tour) and we visited Estancia, Mount Kent, and Mount Harriet.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #Falklands #FalklandIslands #FalklandsWar #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

We're off to one side of a rough, narrow road that winds from our left ahead of us to the right then curves back on itself and up over a rise on the left side where it disappears. The landscape here is one of low, gentle hills and it feels very dry. The road is a coarse route of crushed stone and gravel. The land is a mix of sandy-coloured soil and stone with tufts of dry grass, mostly in yellows and browns but with some greenery near the road verges. Overhead the sky is clear blue, feeling cool, but a mass of bubbling white cloud builds over the hilltop line towards the horizon.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident ✧

A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for aircraft supplyin...

#FalklandsWar #ArmyAirCorps #FalklandIslands #BritishArmy #EastFalkland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_British_Army_Gazelle_friendly_fire_incident

Read our new blog post all about the Jane Cameron National Archives of the Falkland Islands and their experience participating in Explore Your Archives focus week for the first time in 2024 https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-first-explore-your-archive-week-with-jane-cameron-national-archives-falkland-islands/

#FalklandIslands #archives #archivists