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The Crown Colony is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean about 480 miles north-east of Cape Horn. The numerous islands cover 4,700 sq. miles. The main East Falkland Island, 2,610 sq. miles; the West Falkland, 2,090 sq. miles, including the adjacent small islands. The Dependency of South Georgia lies 800 miles south-east of the Falklands, has an area of 1,450 sq. miles; the South Sandwich group, 470 miles south-east of South Georgia, has an area of 130 sq. miles.
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Falkland Islands and Dependencies. Biennial Report: 1970–71. HMSO, 1973
Falkland Islands Journal. Stanley, from 1967
Strange, I. J., The Falkland Islands. Newton Abbot, 1972
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Paxton, J. (1977). Falkland Islands and Dependencies. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271067_17
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