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 — 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 ...

Falkland Islands advertises for £43,000-a-year equality guru - even though its 3,662 population is outnumbered by 500,000 sheep. The job comes with 41 days' holiday and is being advertised by ...

A sheep-shearing sex predator has been sent back to UK from the Falkland Islands as cops are put on alert. Roland Wedgwood-Orekoya was given a prison sentence in the South Atlantic for attacking a ...

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 ...