the falkland islands are off the coast of what south american country
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands have a land area of 4,700 square miles (12,000 km2) and a coastline estimated at 800 miles (1,300 km).[98] Two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland, and about 776 smaller islands constitute the archipelago.[99] The islands are predominantly mountainous and hilly,[100] with the major exception the depressed plains of Lafonia (a peninsula forming the southern part of East Falkland).[101] The Falklands are continental crust fragments resulting from the break-up of Gondwana and the opening of the South Atlantic that began 130 million years ago. The islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the Patagonian Shelf, about 300 miles (480 km) east of Patagonia in southern Argentina.[102]