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Coordinates: 51°35′46″S59°34′08″W / 51.596°S 59.569°W / -51.596; -59.569 Shag Cove is a bay in the east of West Falkland, between Mount Maria and Mount Moody on Falkland Sound.

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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.

West Falkland Island in Falkland Islands, Atlantic Ocean

West Falkland is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is 4,532 square kilometres, 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastline is 1,258.7 kilometres long.

Mount Maria is a mountain of the Hornby Mountains, adjacent to Port Howard, on West Falkland island. It reaches a height of approximately 2,160 feet (660 m).

During the Falklands War, two Pumas and an Agusta A109 Hirundo helicopters were destroyed by British GR3 Harrier jets here, when trying to extract the Argentine 601 Commando Company. [1]

Falklands War 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom

The Falklands War, also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur, was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed over them. On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British control. In total, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities.


The 601 Commando Company is a special operations unit of the Argentine Army.

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Brenton Loch

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Hope Place

Hope Place was a small settlement in Lafonia in East Falkland. It was set up in 1846, by Samuel Lafone, a Montevideo merchant, on the south shores of Brenton Loch. It was mainly populated by Uruguayan gauchos brought in from continental South America. The area is now abandoned.

San Carlos Water bay on the west coast of East Falkland

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Circum Peak

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References

  1. Bicheno, Hugh (2006) Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   978-0-7538-2186-2