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The landscape of the Falklands is a mixture of Dartmoor, in Devon and the Scottish Highlands.

The soil is very peat based, which makes a very good source of fuel, and is still widely used outside Stanley.

Getting around the countryside is difficult, there are very few paved roads and it is very easy to get bogged down if you try to go cross country.



Stanley is twinned with Whitby in England. The Falkland's motto is "Desire the right". Stanley is a very English town with English goods in the shops.
I still say it could do with a Starbucks or similar on the harbour front for visitors and locals alike.

The nearest McDonalds is over 500 miles away, which may not be a bad thing in a way.

Some king penguins from Volunteer Point. Not as cute as the gentoo penguins.


This is the skull of a sperm whale, in the garden of one of the houses in Stanley. There used to be a lot of whale & seal hunting further south in South Georgia, but thankfully most of it has stopped now. You can sometimes see killer whales (orcas) off the coast of some of the islands when they are hunting for sealions or penguins.















The countryside or "camp" can be very bleak & farms isolated. Most communication is by 2 metre radio, very similar to the old style CB radio. There is a mobile phone network now, but its range does not cover much of the areas outside Stanley or Mount Pleasant military base.

I am going on a battlefield tour tomorrow which should be interesting.

At the moment my job here ends on the 16th Feb when my replacement arrives.