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The Falkland Islanders
Falkland Islanders

Falkland Islanders are the people of the British overseas territories of Falkland Islands....
, most of whom are of Welsh
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
 or Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 descent, are nicknamed kelpers because the islands are surrounded by large seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
s called kelp
Kelp

Kelp are large seaweed plants , belonging to the brown algae and classified in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genus. Some species can be very long and form kelp forests....
. This term is not used much by themselves, largely because it is used in a derogatory manner by Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
s; most prefer "Falkland Islanders" or even "Bennies
Crossroads (TV series)

Crossroads was a United Kingdom television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Originally broadcast on the commercial television ITV television network between 1964 and 1988, it was produced by Associated TeleVision until the end of 1981 and then by Central Independent Television....
", a nickname given to them by British soldiers during and after the 1982 war
Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
.

The Falklands economy
Economy of the Falkland Islands

The economy of the Falkland Islands, previously heavily over-dependent on domestic sheep farming , has become more diversified in the last decades and now also has income from tourism and commercial fishing as well as a service base for the fishing industry....
 was formerly based on agriculture, mainly sheep farming, and this resource was harvested to form mulch to feed their sheep.

The Control of Kelp Ordinance 1970 makes provision for the licensing of seaweed harvesting and export.








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The Falkland Islanders
Falkland Islanders

Falkland Islanders are the people of the British overseas territories of Falkland Islands....
, most of whom are of Welsh
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
 or Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 descent, are nicknamed kelpers because the islands are surrounded by large seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
s called kelp
Kelp

Kelp are large seaweed plants , belonging to the brown algae and classified in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genus. Some species can be very long and form kelp forests....
. This term is not used much by themselves, largely because it is used in a derogatory manner by Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
s; most prefer "Falkland Islanders" or even "Bennies
Crossroads (TV series)

Crossroads was a United Kingdom television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Originally broadcast on the commercial television ITV television network between 1964 and 1988, it was produced by Associated TeleVision until the end of 1981 and then by Central Independent Television....
", a nickname given to them by British soldiers during and after the 1982 war
Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
.

The Falklands economy
Economy of the Falkland Islands

The economy of the Falkland Islands, previously heavily over-dependent on domestic sheep farming , has become more diversified in the last decades and now also has income from tourism and commercial fishing as well as a service base for the fishing industry....
 was formerly based on agriculture, mainly sheep farming, and this resource was harvested to form mulch to feed their sheep.

The Control of Kelp Ordinance 1970 makes provision for the licensing of seaweed harvesting and export.

See also

  • Falkland Islanders
    Falkland Islanders

    Falkland Islanders are the people of the British overseas territories of Falkland Islands....
  • Origins of Falkland Islanders
    Origins of Falkland Islanders

    Falkland Islanders derive from the numerically small but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Falkland Islands comprising and descending in part from settlers brought by Luis Vernet, and England and USA sealers; South American gauchos who settled in the 1840s and 1850s, and since the late 1830s and early 1840s onwa...