South America includes the following countries: Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Suriname, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Guyana, and Ecuador. In addition, South America has two non-sovereign territories: French Guiana, a territory of France, and the Falkland Islands, a territory ...
(Placename) a group of over 100 islands in the S Atlantic: a UK Overseas Territory; invaded by Argentina, who had long laid claim to the islands, on 2 April 1982; recaptured by a British expeditionary force on 14 June 1982. Chief town: Stanley. Pop: 3140 (2008 est). Area: about 12...
SYMPOSIUM ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS DISPUTE Malvinas: politics, territory and internationalismdecolonization. Various resolutions ensued urging a peaceful solution to the territorial dispute while taking account the `interests' of the islanders. Talks dragged on and in 1968 Britain declared that the `wishes...
In November 2022, a radar from a British company was placed in Tierra del Fuego, an Argentine continental territory in front of the islands. However, a recent poll shows that for 54 percent of the British, the islands’ belonging to the United Kingdom is not relevant and 72 percent accept...
Falkland Islands(fôkˈlənd), Span.Islas Malvinas,group of islands (2015 est. pop. 3,000), 4,618 sq mi (11,961 sq km), S Atlantic, c.300 mi (480 km) E of the Strait of Magellan. The islands are a British overseas territory; the capital isStanley. There are two large is...
Even though the Falkland Islands are yet to be discovered in 1494, they are located on the west side of the meridian drawn in the Treaty of Tordesillas, which places them in the territory claimed by Spain. SEBALD DE WEERT Sebald de Weert is often credited with the discovery of the Falkland...
whereby our country dispatched a Task Force 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to liberate a British territory from occupation and, even more importantly, to vindicate the principle that the people of the Falkland Islands – ...
1. British Antarctic Territory Area: 660,000 square miles (1,709,400 sq km) Population: No permanent population Capital: Rothera 2.Falkland Islands Area: 4,700 square miles (12,173 sq km) Population: 2,955 (2006 estimate) Capital: Stanley ...
invading the Falkland Islands, a British territory in the South Atlantic, it felt to many like a moment of national vindication. Maradona became, to some, a demi-God. A sect called the Church of Maradona boasts thousands of adherents, its own ten commandments and a newly opened branch in ...
Geopolitics in the South Atlantic : Contemporary Governance and the UK Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 地理概述马尔维纳斯群岛(Islas Malvinas,英国称为福克兰群岛 Falklahd Islands),位于南大西洋南纬五十一度到五十三度,西经五十七度三十分到六十二度三十分之间,西距阿... K Dodds...