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The following is a list of islands that form the Falkland Islands.

Main islands

Island	Area (km2)	Population	Height (m)
East Falkland	6,605 km2 (2,550 sq mi)	2197	705
West Falkland	4,532 km2 (1,750 sq mi)	144	700

Other islands

Island	Area (km2)	Population	Height (m)
Barren Island	11.5[1]	0	ca. 18
Beauchene Island	1.72[1]	?	82
Beaver Island	48.56[1]	?	?
Bird Island	1.2[1]	0	?
Bleaker Island	20.7[1]	?	29
Broken Island	?	0	?
Carcass Island	18.94	?	304
Centre Island	?	0	?
Dunbar Island	2.25[1]	0	?
Dyke Island	?	0	?
East Island	?	0	?
Eddystone Rock	?	0	44
Fox Island	?	0	?
George Island	24.0[1]	?	ca.1 18
Golding Island	?	0	?
Great Island	?	0	?
Hog Island	?	0	?
Horse Block	<1	0	?
Hummock Island	3	0	190
Keppel Island	36.26[1]	?	341
Kidney Island	0.33	0	?
Lively Island	55.85[1]	?	?
Long Island	?	0	?
Low Island	0.76	0	?
Middle Island	?	0	?
Narrow Island	?	0	?
New Island	11.81[1]	?	?
Passage Island	?	0	?
Pebble Island	103.36[1]	?	277
Rabbit Island	1.78[1]	0	91
River Island	?	0	?
Ruggles Island	?	0	?
Saunders Island	124[1]	?	457
Sea Lion Island	9.05[1]	?	46
Sedge Island	3.8	0	?
Speedwell Island	51.5[1]	?	?
Split Island	?	0	?
Staats Island	5[1]	0	?
Tea Island	3.1[1]	0	?
Weddell Island	254	2	383
West Point Island	12.55[1]	?	369

Small archipelagos

Jason Islands

None of the Jason Islands are permanently inhabited.

Island	Area (ha)[1]	Height (m)[1]
Elephant Jason	2.60	208
Flat Jason	3.75	?
Grand Jason	13.80	361
South Jason	3.75	ca. 300
Steeple Jason	7.90	263

Highest islands

Rank	Island	Mountain	Height (m)	Height (ft)
1	East Falkland	Mt Usborne[2]	705	2,313
2	West Falkland	Mt Adam	700	2,297
3	Weddell Island	Mt Weddell	383	1,257
4	West Point Island	Mt Misery	369	1,211
5	Carcass Island	Stanley Hill & Mt Bing	304	997

List of Falkland Islands named after people

This is a short list of islands, which are known to be named after someone. Until at least 1781, the Falklands as a whole were known as the Sebald or Sebaldine Island after Sebald de Weert, who sighted them and tried to make landfall on the Jason Islands in January 1600.[3][4]

• Beauchene Island - Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne
• Dunbar Island
• (East Falkland) Lafonia (peninsula) - Samuel Fisher Lafone
• George Island - ? King George
• Golding Island
• Jason Islands
• Keppel Island - Augustus Keppel
• Saunders Island
• Ruggles Island
• Staats Island
• Tyssen Islands - John Tyssen (1811–1893), British naval officer [5]
• Weddell Island - James Weddell

Spanish names derived from people

A list of the derivations of Spanish names, where they differ substantially from the English versions.

• Beaver Island - Isla San Rafael - The archangel Raphael
• Lively Island - Isla Bougainville - Louis Antoine de Bougainville
• Bleaker Island - Isla María - ?Virgin Mary
• Jason Islands - Isla Sebaldes - Sebald de Weert
• Pebble Island - Isla (de) Borbón/Isla Bourbon - House of Bourbon
• Weddell Island - Isla San José - Saint Joseph

See also

• Falkland Islands
  • Geography of the Falkland Islands
  • List of Falkland Islands-related topics
• List of islands by area
• List of islands by highest point
• List of islands by population
• List of islands in lakes
• List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean

References

External links

• Islands of the Falkland Islands @ United Nations Environment Programme
• Wikimedia Atlas of the Falkland Islands
• World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com

На других языках

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- [en] List of islands of the Falkland Islands

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[ru] Список Фолклендских островов

Эта страница представляет собой список островов британской заморской территории Фолклендские острова.

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