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The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate, regulated by the large oceans which surround it. The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory located over 480 kilometres (298 mi) from South America , to the north of the Antarctic Convergence , where cooler waters from the south mix with warmer waters from the north.
Fitzroy River looking upstream from Darwin Road (the road which connects Port Stanley and Mount Pleasant/Lafonia A panorama at Fitzroy showing the two memorials to those lost when the RFA ships Sir Galahad and Sir Tristam were attacked during the Falklands Conflict. Fitzroy is a settlement on East Falkland.
The Falkland Islands are biogeographically part of the Antarctic zone, [114] with strong connections to the flora and fauna of Patagonia in mainland South America. [115] Land birds make up most of the Falklands' avifauna. The only endemic bird species on the Falkland Islands are the flightless Falkland steamer duck and Cobb's wren.
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Gypsy Cove in Yorke Bay in 2019, with penguins on the beach Early mapping of Yorke Bay (Dom Pernety, 1769). Yorke Bay is a bay on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands.It is located half a mile north of Port Stanley Airport, four miles to the northeast of the capital city of Stanley, on a peninsula connected to the mainland by the Boxer Bridge and a narrow isthmus known as "The Neck".