Fitzroy, Falkland Islands

Fitzroy is a settlement on East Falkland. It is divided into Fitzroy North and Fitzroy South by a tidal river called Fitzroy River that is fed from a lake on the east side of Mount Whickham. The river was forded by Charles Darwin when he visited for a second time in 1834.

It is named after Robert FitzRoy, who commanded HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyages, and later developed a system of weather forecasting for the United Kingdom. Fitzroy is on the inlet known as Port Pleasant.

During the 1982 Falklands War, naval auxiliary ships Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, carrying contingents of The Welsh Guards, were bombed by the Argentine Air Force in the waters off Fitzroy whilst attempting to reinforce soldiers encamped there. A monument on each side of a small cove at Fitzroy commemorates each ship with dedications in English and Welsh on both.

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External links

• Media related to Fitzroy, Falkland Islands at Wikimedia Commons

1. List of settlements in the Falkland Islands
2. Falklands War
3. Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833)
4. Robert FitzRoy
5. Fitzroy
6. East Falkland
7. History of the Falkland Islands
8. Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute
9. Battle of the Falkland Islands
10. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Falkland Islands
11. Geography of the Falkland Islands
12. Origins of Falkland Islanders
13. Falkland Islands Company
14. Fitzroy Island (Antarctica)
15. Geology of the Falkland Islands
16. Weddell Island
17. RFA Sir Tristram
18. Bluff Cove
19. Weddell Point, Weddell Island
20. Listed buildings in the Falkland Islands