The islands are referred to in the English language as "(The) FalklandIslands".
The largest company in the islands is the FalklandIslands Company, a publicly quoted company on the London Stock Exchange and responsible for the majority of the economic activity on the islands, though its farms were sold in 1991 to the FalklandIslands Government.
The extra-provincial Anglican parish of the FalklandIslands is under the direct jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Argentina has continued to claim sovereignty over the islands, and the dispute was used by the military junta dictatorship as an excuse to invade and briefly occupy the islands before being defeated in the two-month-long undeclared Falklands War in 1982 by a United Kingdom task force which returned the islands to British control.
There is disputed evidence of prior settlement by humans, based on the existence of the FalklandIsland fox, or Warrah, on the islands, as well as a scattering of undated artifacts including arrowheads and the remains of a canoe.
It is thought this canid was brought to the island by humans, although it may have reached the islands by itself via a land bridge during the last ice age.
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