← Back to context Comment by keybored 11 hours ago They still own Falkland Islands. 2 comments keybored Reply flumpcakes 10 hours ago Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled. keybored 9 hours ago I don’t know terribly much about it. Wikipedia says that the British Government decided to colonize it in 1840.Why did British people decide to move from the Northern Hemisphere to this island? Because the climate looked similar?And yes, here is a dispute between a historically imperialist versus a settler state. It’s weird.
flumpcakes 10 hours ago Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled. keybored 9 hours ago I don’t know terribly much about it. Wikipedia says that the British Government decided to colonize it in 1840.Why did British people decide to move from the Northern Hemisphere to this island? Because the climate looked similar?And yes, here is a dispute between a historically imperialist versus a settler state. It’s weird.
keybored 9 hours ago I don’t know terribly much about it. Wikipedia says that the British Government decided to colonize it in 1840.Why did British people decide to move from the Northern Hemisphere to this island? Because the climate looked similar?And yes, here is a dispute between a historically imperialist versus a settler state. It’s weird.
Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled.
I don’t know terribly much about it. Wikipedia says that the British Government decided to colonize it in 1840.
Why did British people decide to move from the Northern Hemisphere to this island? Because the climate looked similar?
And yes, here is a dispute between a historically imperialist versus a settler state. It’s weird.