ABSTRACT
The Falkland Islands are among a number of territories that remain, from their imperial past, UK Overseas Territories. The present UK government is considering extending citizenship rights to all the remaining dependencies. Eventually the UK took possession of both West and East Falkland and settlers from the UK arrived to develop sheep farming and to establish a port for the Cape Horn route. The Falkland Islands Company, a British-based trading company, was established. In 1908, the UK extended its sovereignty to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The cause of the war on October 1989 ostensibly the issue of self-determination, but important considerations were that valuable fishing grounds and petroleum deposits existed within the EEZ. Apart from the Anglo-Argentinian co-operation, the other factor that keeps the Falkland Islands in the geopolitical focus is that the economic situation in the islands was transformed during the late 1990s. For Argentina, the Malvinas remain a major concern.
