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{{quote|''Two shitty Islands, full of penguins!"''|'''[[Julio Cortazar]]'''}} |
{{quote|''Two shitty Islands, full of penguins!"''|'''[[Julio Cortazar]]'''}} |
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[[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Frozen rocks]], [[Everything's Better |
[[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Frozen rocks]], [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguins]], and [[Land Mine Goes Click|land mines]]... [[Noodle Implements|Always a winning combination, isn't it?]] ...Don't answer that. Anyway: |
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The Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory, located just off South America. |
The Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory, located just off South America. |
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There seems to be the impression that the Islands are chock full of millionaires. While we do have two or three of them kicking around the place, Islanders are, on a whole, not nearly as rich as the assumption and implication seems to be. Millionaires or idiots, anyway. |
There seems to be the impression that the Islands are chock full of millionaires. While we do have two or three of them kicking around the place, Islanders are, on a whole, not nearly as rich as the assumption and implication seems to be. Millionaires or idiots, anyway. |
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Most of the Islands' income relies quite heavily on fishing -- getting many Jiggers from abroad (Korea, Japan, etc...) -- and tourism -- because somehow, [[Everything's Better |
Most of the Islands' income relies quite heavily on fishing -- getting many Jiggers from abroad (Korea, Japan, etc...) -- and tourism -- because somehow, [[Everything's Better with Penguins|everything really is better with penguins]]. Though that isn't the only wildlife people travel to see: There are albatross, sea lions, and more (including an [[wikipedia:Falkland Islands Wolf|endemic species of fox/canine]], but that one is sadly long extinct). And there are some truly beautiful sights both on the East and West Islands. |
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FICS (Falkland Island Community School) and the Junior School are both modelled quite heavily on UK school systems; however, the year (vacation, breaks and the like) is swapped, as Falklands is in summer when the UK is in winter. Teachers (like other workers in many Departments around the Island) are often brought down on contract from the UK. |
FICS (Falkland Island Community School) and the Junior School are both modelled quite heavily on UK school systems; however, the year (vacation, breaks and the like) is swapped, as Falklands is in summer when the UK is in winter. Teachers (like other workers in many Departments around the Island) are often brought down on contract from the UK. |
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=== Tropes about the archipelago: === |
=== Tropes about the archipelago: === |
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* [[Everything's Better |
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: You bet. Especially rockhoppers. |
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