Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia (on the southern half of East Falkland) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands. While Fuegians from Patagonia could have visited the Falklands, the islands were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans. When the world sea level was lower in the Ice Age, the Falkland Islands may have been joined to the mainland of South America. The extinct Falkland Islands wolf or warrah is sometimes taken as evidence of pre-European discovery. The British responded with an expeditionary force that forced the Argentines to surrender.Ĭlaims of pre-Columbian discovery Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. In 1833, the British returned to the Falkland Islands. Spain, which had a garrison at Puerto Soledad on East Falklands, administered the garrison from Montevideo until 1811 when it was compelled to withdraw as a result of the war against Argentine independence and the pressures of Peninsular War. Britain and Spain almost went to war over the islands, but the British government decided that it should withdraw its presence from many overseas settlements in 1774. In early 1770 a Spanish commander arrived from Buenos Aires with five ships and 1,400 soldiers forcing the British to leave Port Egmont. In 1765, a British captain claimed the islands for Britain. France established a colony on the islands in 1764. The islands were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans. Nonetheless, the Falkland Islands have been a matter of controversy, as they have been claimed by the French, British, Spaniards and Argentines at various points. The history of the Falkland Islands ( Spanish: Islas Malvinas) goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.
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