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Falkland Islands · East Falkland
Short description of Stanley
Stanley is the capital of the Falkland Islands and the only town, a harbour of brightly painted tin roofs where most visitors arrive by cruise ship for a single day. Christ Church Cathedral stands on the front beside an arch made from the jawbones of blue whales. The Historic Dockyard Museum covers shipwrecks, sheep farming and the war of 1982, whose memorials and battlefields ring the town. A short drive leads to Gypsy Cove, where Magellanic penguins nest above a white beach. Flights land at Mount Pleasant, an hour away, and tours head out to the penguin colonies of the camp.
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Best time to visit: November – February
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All highlights and sightsBeta
- Gypsy Cove and its Magellanic penguins
- Christ Church Cathedral and the Whalebone Arch
- Historic Dockyard Museum
- Bluff Cove Lagoon gentoo penguin colony(Day trip)
- The 1982 Liberation Memorial
- Battlefield tours of Mount Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge(Day trip)
- The waterfront and its painted houses
- The wreck of the Lady Elizabeth
- Government House
- Cape Pembroke lighthouse
- Kidney Island and its sooty shearwaters(Day trip)