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Falkland Islands - History

Falkland Islands - History
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     challenging words:    deep-sea, government-funded, mid-1960s, necessarily, waterway, naval, businessman, military, profitable, economy, southeastern, industry, dispute, navy, government, disagreement
     content words:    Falkland Islands, South America, Patagonian Indians, Viscount Falkland, After Argentina, Luis Vernet

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Falkland Islands - History
By Ekaterina Zhdanova-Redman 		  
1     Think about a time when you felt really small. Not small in size, necessarily, but small in personality, so small that you were easy to ignore. There's a country that is really small, and for much of its history, has been very easy to ignore. This country is so small, there are only about 3,000 people who live there. And people have been living there for only a few hundred years. But one time a few years ago, this tiny, easy-to-ignore country took center stage as two big countries fought over it. This country is the Falkland Islands.
 
2     The Falkland Islands are located off the extreme southeastern coast of South America. Its closest neighbor is Argentina, and it‘s not too far away from Antarctica. The country is made up of two main islands and a handful of smaller ones. There's a little evidence that some Patagonian Indians came to the Falklands from Argentina many years ago. But when the first Europeans began arriving in the 17th century, there weren't any people to be found on the Falklands.
 
3     According to documented history, the British were the first to land on the Falklands in 1690. And, like they did most everywhere else, the British explorers claimed the islands for the king and queen of England. The British named the waterway between the two main islands for a British navy officer, Viscount Falkland.

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