Weddell Island is the third largest of the Falkland Islands, with an area of 98 square miles (254 km²). Until the late nineteenth century, it was known as Swan Island. Its small population lives in Weddell Settlement on the east coast, the remainder of the island being run as a sheep farm. Image File history File links Weddell_Island. ... Image File history File links Weddell_Island. ... Sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. ...
Like many of the Falkland Islands, Weddell Island is known for its wildlife, including penguins, sealions and dolphins. Exotic wildlife, including skunks, rheas, parrots and guanacos were introduced in the 1930s, along with Patagonian foxes and sea beavers, which can still be found. Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of flightless birds living in the southern hemisphere. ... Genera Eumetopias Zalophus Otaria Neophoca Phocarctos A sea lion rookery at Monterey, California A sea lion is any of several marine mammals of the family Otariidae. ... == Headline text ==Insert non-formatted text here Genera See article below. ... Genera Mephitis Spilogale Conepatus The skunks or Mephitidae are a family of medium-sized mammals, typically black-and-white-furred, belonging to the order Carnivora. ... Species Rhea americana Rhea pennata Rheas, also known as ñandú (pronounced ) are large flightless birds native to South America. ... Genera A parrot is any of the many birds belonging to the family Psittacidae. ... Binomial name Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776) The Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) (sometimes spelled Guanco) is an elegant, fine-boned lamoid animal that stands approximately 3 ft 6 (1. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...
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.
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.
The largest company in the islands is the Falkland Islands 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 Falkland Islands Government.
It's the gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance: losing his ship in the ice, drifting helplessly across the Weddell Sea, and finally reaching Elephant Island, from where he sailed 800 miles to get help for his stranded men.
A vivid history of the Galapagos and the role of the islands as a crucible of evolutionary ideas written by a Pulitzer Prize winner.
It covers not just Darwin, but the discovery of the islands, visits of Hancock and Beebe, the influence of the United States during WWII and the establishment of the national park.
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