The Falkland Islands, 1833-1876: The Establishment of a Colony

Abstract

Much of the attention that has been focused on the historical geography of the Falkland Islands recently has ceased at 1833, the year the British began their 149-year period of uninterrupted occupation and rule. However, it must not be thought that nothing of interest occurred in the Islands after 1833, for the experiences of these Islands because of their isolation, the complete lack of an indigenous population, the want of any obvious economic role and the struggles to make them into a viable and settled colony, make them unique in British colonial history, and, therefore, worthy of study. This paper looks at the crucial decades after 1833 when the Islands progressed from a resident population of nine, fed by naval rations, to one of over 1100, supported by extensive ship repair and provisioning businesses and, increasingly, by wool production.

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