The Falkland Islands comprise two large islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, and some 200 smaller islands between latitudes 51 degrees and 53 degrees south and longitudes 57 degrees and 61 degrees west in south Atlantic, approximately 770 kilometres northeast of Cape Horn, South America. On main islands deeply indented coastlines afford good anchorages. 700 metres on West Falkland.
Landscape is mainly stony, treeless grassland with no large inland waters.
Greenwich Mean Time less 4 hours. FI Pound at parity with Pound sterling. Economy formerly based on agriculture, principally sheep farming, but income from fishing activities is now the largest source of revenue.