20231231 – Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands)
The main island where we landed is about 300 miles (480km) west of mainland Patagonia in Argentina. There are two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, and 776 smaller islands around them. The population is around 4,000, who primarily identify as English, but as we learned, there are people with many different nationalities, including Asians, who live on the islands. After the Falkland War, a referendum held in 2013 showed people wanted to continue being a “British Territory” rather than Argentina.
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