Abstract
EARLY in the sixteenth century a group of islands to the east of Patagonia began to appear on charts. It is not clear who first sighted them, but Miss Boyson is inclined to give the honour to Amerigo Vespucci and to identify with the Falkland Islands the land which the Florentine astronomer claimed to have discovered in 1502. In any case, the history of the Falklands did not begin until the voyage of Cavendish and Davis in 1592. From then until the battle of the Falklands, Miss Boyson traces the varied history of the islands and the adventures of rival whalers and settlers which led to the curious claim of the Argentine to the sovereignty of the group, a claim that was maintained long after they had become a British colony inhabited entirely by British settlers.
The Falkland Islands.
By V. F. Boyson. With Notes on the Natural History, by Rupert Vallentin. Pp. 414 + 24 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 15s. net.
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The Falkland Islands . Nature 115, 940 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115940a0
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