San Carlos, Falkland Islands
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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]
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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.
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