North Arm
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For other uses, see North Arm (disambiguation).
North Arm is a settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, in Lafonia. It is on the south coast, on the shore of the Bay of Harbours, and overlooks Sea Lion Island in the distance. It is the largest settlement on East Falkland south of Goose Green. North Arm is ninety miles from Stanley, and it takes four and a half hours to drive there.[1]
- "In the 1893-4 season, the steam shearing machine was introduced to the Falkland Islands Company farm at North Arm." [2]
Despite this hand shearing continued at many other farms until the early 1960s.
North Arm was owned by the Falkland Islands Company until 1991, when it was sold to the government[1]. There is a shop, a school, and a community centre here.
The North Arm farm itself is 277,000 acres (1,120 km²) in size.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Wigglesworth, Angela. (1992) Falkland People. Pub. Peter Owen. ISBN 0-7206-0850-3.
- ^ Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
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