Falkland Islands Quotes

“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.”
― Ernest Shackleton

“At Government House, Tony Hunt, the governor's son, watched a trusted retainer named Mary Fullerton prepare to leave with what valued possessions she could carry, a portrait of the Queen in one hand, two bottles of gin in the other. Tony thought she had her priorities about right.”
― Paul Eddy, War in the Falklands: The Full Story