English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Occupation of the Falkland Islands
The
occupation of the
Falkland Islands
and of
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
( "Military Administration of the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands") was the short-lived
Argentine
administration of a group of islands in the
South Atlantic
whose
sovereignty has long been disputed
. Until their invasion on 2 April 1982 by the
Argentine military junta
, they had been governed by the
United Kingdom
since
it re-established control over them in 1833
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License