Thereafter, the archipelago was visited only by fishing ships; its political status was undisputed until 1820, when Colonel David Jewett, an American privateer working for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, informed anchored ships about Buenos Aires' 1816 claim to Spain's territories in the South Atlantic.
Despois diso, o arquipélago só foi visitado por navíos de pesca; o seu status político era indiscutíbel até 1820, cando o coronel David Jewett, un corsario estadounidense que traballaba para as Provincias Unidas do Río da Prata, informou que os navíos ancorados en Buenos Aires en 1816 eran unha reivindicación dos territorios españois no Atlántico Sur.