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The jetty with typical Victorian terrace houses in the background
View of the centre of Port Stanley
Margaret Thatcher is hailed here as the great liberator;
Falklands War Memorial
Governor’s mansion
Summer flowers in the Governor’s garden
In the Falklands Museum…
The Falklands local newspaper’s headquarters
Along the Port Stanley boardwalk
The Falklands archipelago consist of two main islands and 338 smaller ones, covering a total of 12.173 km2 -almost half the size of Belgium. Founded in 1844, Stanley is probably the world’s smallest and most remote capital. It is a handsome, welcoming village of about 2000 people. Very British atmosphere, although the architecture is that of a frontier town, except for a few Victorian step gable houses. Despite its occupation by thousands of Argentine troops from April 2 to June 14, 1982, Stanley escaped almost unscathed. It remains the center for the archipelago’s wool industry, and more recently became a port for deep-water fishing industry. (Info from Lonely Planet “Antarctica” guidebook).
Photos taken with NIKON D200, 24-120mm lens on 8 January 2007.