New Island

New Island is the westernmost inhabited island of the Falklands, run as a private nature reserve by a trust and visited mainly by expedition cruise ships. From the landing beach, where the rusting hull of the Protector III lies stranded, a path crosses the island to its western cliffs. There rockhopper penguins, black-browed albatrosses and imperial shags crowd together on the ledges, with a colony of thin-billed prions nesting in burrows below the grass. American whalers and sealers once used the harbour, and a small museum in the settlement tells their story. Overnight stays are rare.