Falkland Islands tourist information with details
about travel to and around the islands. Where to stay and what to see is made easier with
insider tips and hand-selected Falkland links, by dedicated editors and visitors to
TravelNotes.org - The Online Guide to Travel.
The Falkland Islands, Malvinas in Spanish, are a
dependency of Great Britain; located in the south Atlantic
Ocean.
The Falkland Islands are made up of around 200 islands, divided
into two main groups by the narrow Falkland Sound.
The two largest islands are East Falkland Island, and West Falkland
Island.
Cold, strong winds that sweep around the islands all year.
Until 1985, South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands were also governed as dependencies of the Falklands.
Weather in Falkland Islands
Mount
Pleasant Weather.
The capital of the British dependency of the Falkland Islands,
since 1842, is on East Falkland Island.
The town was held by Argentine troops for about ten weeks, in 1982,
before being retaken by a British task force.
An airport was opened in 1979 - three years before Argentina sent an
occupying force to the islands.
Falkland Islands Tourist Board:
Holidays in the Falklands are a relatively new concept, but the range of accommodation and
amenities is well up to international standards for the kinds of holiday on offer in the
Falklands.
Map of The
Falkland Islands:
Find out more about the Falkland Islands using this interactive map.
Flights by international commercial carriers to Santiago, connect with a once weekly service provided by Lan Chile,
routing through Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas.
Getting to the Falklands:
The Falkland Islands are serviced by air routes from South America and also directly from
Britain.
The direct flight from Britain is
provided by the Royal Air Force and connects the Falklands international airport at Mount
Pleasant (MPN) with RAF Brize Norton.
RAF Brize Norton is located near Burford, Oxfordshire. The nearest
British Rail stations are at Swindon and Oxford. There is no public transport between
these stations and Brize Norton, however a free RAF coach service is available to transfer
passengers between Swindon BR and Brize Norton (and visa versa).
Travelling With The RAF:
RAF schedule and fares.
Falkland Islands Government:
The official line on the relation with Argentina and the sovereignty question.
Where to Stay:
Tourist accommodation in the Falkland Islands is limited and anyone wishing to travel to
the Islands should arrange their accommodation directly with the hotel.
Falklands/Malvinas
War:
An English chronicle of the Falklands/Malvinas history and war.
Islas Malvinas:
Naturally this site is in Spanish, and concentrates on the conflict rather than travelling
there.
One
Hundred Days:
These engrossing memoirs take us south through the vast, lonely waters of the Atlantic as
hopes for peace faded and strategies of war evolved, then became reality, victory and
aftermath. They tell of the repulse of the Argentinean navy and the defeat of their air
forces; of the sinking of the Belgrano; and of the daring amphibious landing at Carlos
Water, eight thousand miles from home.
Books
on Falklands Travel:
Browse Amazon's best-selling list of books on travel in the Falkland Islands.
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