San Carlos, Falkland Islands
- San Carlos, Falkland Islands
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 [http://www.falklands.info/background/acro.html]
History
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.
ee also
* San Carlos River
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