Plan a trip to Falkland Islands

Places to see in Falkland Islands

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Stanley

  City

  Stanley is the capital city of the Falkland Islands. It is located on the island of East Falkland, on a north-facing slope in one of the wettest parts of the islands.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Aerial photo Port Stanley.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  East Falkland

  Island

  East Falkland is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, having an area of 6,605 km2 or 54% of the total area of the Falklands.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Travellers & Tinkers (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  West Falkland

  Island

  West Falkland the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is 4,532 square kilometres, 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastline is 1,258.7 kilometres long.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Ben Tubby (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Mount Usborne

  Mountain

  Mount Usborne is a mountain on East Falkland. At 705 m (2,312 ft) above sea level, it is the highest point in the Falkland Islands. It is 5 metres (16 ft) taller than Mount Adam, the highest peak on West Falkland.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: chris lovelock (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Saunders Island

  Island

  Saunders Island is the fourth largest of the Falkland Islands, lying north west of West Falkland. The island is run as a sheep farm.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: 2884-saunders-landscape RJ.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Weddell Island

  Island

  Weddell Island is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Weddell Island 2 - Falkland Islands.jpg (Public domain). Map

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  Port Egmont

  Ruins

  Port Egmont was the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, on Saunders Island off West Falkland, and is named after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of its founding.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: CIA (Public domain). Map

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  Christ Church Cathedral

  Religious

  Christ Church Cathedral, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, is the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world. It is the parish church of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories. The Parish of the Falkland Islands is part of the Anglican Communion.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Travellers & Tinkers (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  San Carlos Water

  Beach

  San Carlos Water is a bay/fjord on the west coast of East Falkland, facing onto the Falkland Sound.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Chris Pearson from Leuchars, Scotland (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Sapper Hill

  Mountain

  Sapper Hill (453 ft) is on East Falkland, located just south of Stanley, the Falklands Islands capital. It is named after a troop of sappers who were once billeted at Moody Brook barracks.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Apcbg (Public domain). Map

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  Lady Elizabeth

  Landmark

  Lady Elizabeth is a wrecked iron barque of 1,155 tons built by Robert Thompson Jr. of Southwick, Sunderland and launched on 4 June 1879. Robert Thompson Jr. was one of the sons of Robert Thompson Sr. who owned and operated the family ran shipyard J. L. Thompson & Sons.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Lady Elizabeth.jpg (Public domain). Map

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  Mount Kent

  Mountain

  Mount Kent is a hill on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, and its peak is 458 metres above sea level. It is located north of Mount Challenger some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Stanley.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Apcbg (Public domain). Map