San Carlos Settlement

San Carlos and north East Falkland

San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. It is sometimes nicknamed "JB" after a former owner, Jack Bonner [1]

[edit] History

It is named after the ship San Carlos, which visited in 1768, and grew in the early twentieth century around a factory which froze sheep carcasses.

San Carlos was the main British Army bridgehead during the Falklands War, when it was codenamed "Blue Beach".

A museum and the British War Cemetery commemorate that period.

[edit] See also

• San Carlos River

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Coordinates: 51°30′10″S 58°59′29″W / 51.5027°S 58.9913°W / -51.5027; -58.9913

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