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There are 2 main islands and 776 smaller ones... There are 3,060 people living there and 583000 sheep ;)

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The Falklands/Malvinas' sovereignty is still in dispute, although the British has kept a settlement there for longer than any other country that claimed the islands (France, Spain, and later Argentina).

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AWACS was not used by the British forces as the British Government had scrapped the only ships able to carry an AWACS aircraft.

Argentina had no AWACS capability.

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The United Kingdom controls the Falkland Islands, which was declared a British territory in 1830. The islands are also claimed by Argentina, which briefly seized the islands in 1982 until expelled by the UK in the Falklands War.
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The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic and were originally part of the British Empire. The Falklands are occupied mostly by people of British descent and have been for about 200 years. In a referendum, 97% of the islanders voted to remain a British Overseas Territory. However, Argentina has long claimed sovereignty of the islands and in fact invaded the islands in 1982. Britain sent a military task force to retake the islands with considerable loss of life on both sides of the conflict. Argentina is still pressing for sovereignty of the islands and the islanders are still overwhelmingly adamant that they want to remain affiliated to Britain. It is unlikely that Argentina will try to retake the islands again, particularly as Britain now has a much bigger military presence on the islands than they did in 1982.

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Because they had the military force, the capacity to project that force

and the will to apply that force.

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The country is England and the capital is London.

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The military losses by the British totaled 255. Thr Royal Air Force lost one

man. The Royal Marines lost 27. The Royal Navy lost 104. The Royal Army

lost 123.

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The Hawaiian islands are north of the equator and the Solomon Islands are in within the southern tropic, which means that the Falkland Islands are furthest south. The Falkland Islands.

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The Falkland Islands are off the east coast of Argentina in South America.

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256 British, 649 Argentine, and 3 Falkland Islanders.

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The United Kingdom.
It is a self-governing territory of the United Kingdom

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74 days

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It started on March 19 1982, when Argentininian forces occupied South Georgia, and ended on 14 June, when the Argentinian forces in the Falklands surrendered. Neither side, incidentally, actually declared war. April-June 1982.

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Southern hemisphere

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Flight time from London to Stanley(capital of Falklands) 16hrs.

Sailing time from Southampton to Falklands: roughly 3 weeks.

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The British wanted the Falkland Islands, they are near Argentina, as they could use it as a Naval as well as airbase, for fueling ships and for keeping troops there in case of a war.

In international law, to extract minerals from Antarctica you need to have a coast facing it. The Falklands were known of as early as 1502. They were colonized by various countries, firstly by the British in 1592, nearly 400 years before the Falklands war. They were used as a base for the Whaling and Sealing industries and ship repair and had occupation/ownership declared by various nationalities (never by Argentina but certainly by Spanish and Germans working out of Buenos Aries) through to 1833 when British sovereignty was re-established. Las Malvinas comes from the period of french colonisation in 1754 when the Falklands were known as Îles Malouines (Breton for ST Malo). The remains of the earliest occupants found in the Falkland Islands are thought to be those of the indigenous population of Tierra Del Fuego.

If you're talking about the present tense, it is because the Falkland Islanders want to be British.

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The Canary Islands belong to Spain but not in the sense of a territory like Guam belongs to the US.

The Canary Islands are a province of Spain just as Hawaii is a state of the United States.

The province is called Santa Cruz de Tenerife and is also an autonomous community of the same name.

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I can think of two ways the British Navy used aluminum; one which worked to their advantage, and the other which worked to their disadvantage.

1) To their disadvantage, several British warships were knocked out of action because they followed the US Navy trend of a steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. It saved weight and made the ships more economical to build, but they were not as tough than the older all-steel warships used by the Argentine Navy, and more vulnerable to Exocet anti-ship missiles of the Argentine Air Force.

2) To their advantage, as I recall, at least one British destroyer saved itself from an Exocet attack by projecting aluminum chaff into the sky; strips of aluminum foil which confused the Argentine radar and caused the missile to miss its target.

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Argentineans got tired of the situation they were in after the war. They were better off without the wars. Therefore they fought back and decided to get democratic.

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The capital of Falkland is Stanley.

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yes the Falkland Islands 80% tropical rain forest

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Galapagos island is very very dry

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Britain recognises the sovereignity of the Falklands' citizens, that they are a part of the British Empire by choice. Britain will therefore not negotiate over the ownership of the islands, because they believe the decision lies solely with the citizens. However since they are subjects of the British Empire, Britain will defend them from foreign aggression.