Falkland Sound
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[[Image:Satellite image of Falkland Islands in November 1999.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Falkland Sound is the large strait running between the two larger islands]]
The '''Falkland Sound''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Estrecho de San Carlos'') is a sea [[strait]] in the [[Falkland Islands]]. Running south west - north east, it separates [[West Falkland|West]] and [[East Falkland]].
==Name==
The sound was named by [[John Strong]] in [[1690]] for [[Viscount Falkland]], the name only later being applied to the [[archipelago]] and its two largest islands. The Spanish name "Estrecho de San Carlos" refers to the ship ''San Carlos'' which visited in 1768; confusingly the [[English language|English]] name "[[San Carlos Water]]" is a much smaller inlet on East Falkland - and gives its name to [[San Carlos, Falkland Islands|San Carlos]], [[Port San Carlos]] and the [[San Carlos River]].
Captain John Strong of the Welfare made the first recorded landing on either of the main islands (West and East Falkland) on 29th January, 1690, at [[Bold Cove]] (near [[Port Howard]]) just off Falkland Sound.
==Geography==
Islands in the Falkland Sound include [[Narrows Island]], [[Great Island, Falkland Islands|Great Island]], the [[Tyssen Islands]] and the [[Swan Islands, Falkland Islands|Swan Islands]]. The [[Arch Islands]] and [[Eddystone Rock, Falklands Islands|Eddystone Rock]] are at the south and north ends of the Sound respectively.
Settlements on it include [[Ajax Bay]], [[Port San Carlos]] and [[San Carlos, Falkland Islands|San Carlos]] on [[East Falkland]] and [[Port Howard]] and [[Fox Bay]] on [[West Falkland]].
Inlets and bays on the Sound include: Fox Bay, Port Howard (West Falkland); [[Grantham Sound]], San Carlos Water, Ruggles Bay (East Falkland)
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