Falkland Island

English

Proper noun

Falkland Island

1. attributive form of Falkland Islands
   • 2009, Jean Austin, A Falklands Diary: Winds of Change in a Distant Colony, The Radcliffe Press, →ISBN, page 74:

     […] to forget the demands of the Rayburn, to which one had to make a beeline on entering the house, clad in evening finery or not, in order to feed the brute, and to recall instead its comforting warmth as one leaned, in typical Falkland Island fashion, against its rail; […]

   • 2014, Mark Connelly, “Propaganda, Memory and Identity: The Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914”, in David Welch, editor, Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, part II (The Great War), page 27:

     The first attribute of Falkland Island identity highlighted in virtually all histories is the assertion that the islands feel peculiarly Scottish.

   • 2023, David Edmonds, “Work, Work, Work, and Janet”, in Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

     There were, of course, solid arguments for objecting to Argentine aggression and not wanting the Falkland Island inhabitants to come under the rule of a brutal military junta.