Why the English call the Falklands in the Falkland Islands – 04/02/2019

For the Argentineans, they will always be called Falkland Islands. However, for the English and their own inhabitants, the name is Falkland Islands, that is the Falkland Islands. Now well: Why the British chose this name to call this archipelago located south of the Atlantic Ocean?

The origin of the name, according to the official website of the Government of the Islands and the Stanley Historical Museum (the Falkland Island Museum) goes back to the first European navigators who came to the region.

According to the museum's archives, the first arrival was that of the captain John Davis, in 1592, followed by Richard Hawkins, in 1594 (whose name appears on the old maps where the islands are designated "Hawkings Maydenlande") and for the Danish Sebald van Weerdt, in 1598.

However, still according to the museum's archives, this fund was only observations because the first landing recorded was that of Captain John Strong, in 1690.

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The origin of the name Falkland

Still according to the British official version, when Captain Strong arrived on the islands, he did it on board. a ship called Welfare, which belonged to Viscount Falkland, who was at the time the treasurer of the British Crown.

From there, the British decided to call Falkland not only to the strait by which Strong sailed (which, in Argentina, owes its name to San Carlos Strait), but also to the islands.

The funny thing is that Falkland, the place that ended up giving a name to the archipelago that sparked the war between Argentina and Great Britain, is in Scotland. This is a city located near Edinburgh and belongs to the council of Fife.

With a population estimated at less than 1500 people (In Fife, according to the 2011 census, there are about 372,000), the biggest attraction of the Falkland is its palace, which bears the same name as the city and which was built between 1501 and 1541 James IV and James V, Renaissance style.

A curiosity: in addition to being a real mansion of the past used by the dynasty of Kings Stuart (ruled between 1603 and 1714), the Falkland Palace hosts one of the two oldest tennis courts in Britain, dating from the sixteenth century (the other is at Hampton Court in England).

Despite falling out of favor since 1660, the palace included he was about to disappear in the nineteenth centurybut was saved by the Marquis of Bute County, who renovated now its Renaissance origin.

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