Falkland Islands facts. First sighted by British sea captain John Davis in 1592. Land area 4,700sq miles – about the same as Northern Ireland. Population 3,200 – up 57% from 1982.

The Falkland Islands have a very long sheep farming history. For almost 150 years sheep have been grazed on the wide-open native white grass camps and rich coastal valleys and "greens".

Home to around 3,000 people and roughly half-a-million sheep, the Falklands, a British territory, are a major wool producer. Besides being one of the only places in the world where sheep and penguins ...

HAVING JUST had the good fortune to visit the Falkland Isles where sheep still reign supreme, I thought it might be appropriate to indulge in a bit of nostalgia of a sheep world which some of us ‘old ...

Three Falkland Islands farmers and the general manager of Falklands Landholdings Corporation recently travelled to Australia as part of the ongoing search for ... from a Polwarth/Merino-type sheep.

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) – Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, ... When we were kids we played with sheep bones.

George Lee, who lives in the Falkland Islands, works on his family’s farm on most weekends and holidays. Here he separates sheep that have already been shorn, or trimmed, from those who will ...

The Falkland Islands government decided to counter Argentine claims by scheduling a referendum for the first half 2013 on the status of the islands, ... Fishing and sheep farming are the main economic ...

When Charles Darwin came to these islands 178 years ago, he noted that the Magellanic penguin was known locally as a "jackass" penguin, "from its habit," he wrote, "of throwing its head backward ...

STANLEY, Falkland Islands — Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they’re not complaining about its aftermath. The April 2, 1982, invasion led ...

STANLEY, Falkland Islands ( AP) — Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they’re not complaining about its aftermath. The April 2, 1982 ...