← Back to context Comment by keybored 16 hours ago They still own Falkland Islands. 2 comments keybored Reply flumpcakes 14 hours ago Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled. keybored 13 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 14 hours ago Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled. keybored 13 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 13 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.