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The Falkland Islands are situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, facing the Strait of Magellan to the west, South Georgia to the east, and the Antarctic Peninsula area to the south.

Some relevant distances from the capital Stanley:

Isla de los Estados (Argentina) 520 km;

Rio Grande (Argentina) 710 km;

Puerto Williams (Chile) 740 km;

Rio Gallegos (Argentina) 800 km;

Punta Arenas (Chile) 890 km;

Shag Rocks (South Georgia/UK) 1,090 km;

St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgarian Antarctic base) 1,230 km;

Grytviken (South Georgia/UK) 1,450 km;

Rothera (British Antarctic base) 1,850 km;

Montevideo (Uruguay) 1,880 km;

Porto Alegre (Brazil) 2,470 km;

Gough Island (UK) 3,840 km;

Tristan da Cunha (UK) 3,900 km;

Bouvet Island (Norway) 3,980 km;

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, Chilean Polynesia) 5,070 km;

St. Helena (UK) 6,060 km;

Cape Town (South Africa) 6,230 km;

Ascension Island (UK) 6,250 km;

Cayenne (French Guiana) 6,280 km;

Pitcairn Island (British Polynesia) 6,650 km;

Walvis Bay (Namibia) 6,830 km; and

Auckland (New Zealand) 8,920 km.

The Falklands is one of the fourteen UK Overseas Territories comprising also:

St. Helena and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha group (Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough), and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (geographically in Antarctica but not covered by the Antarctic Treaty) in the South Atlantic;