San Carlos
San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. It is sometimes nicknamed "JB" after a former owner, Jack Bonner.- Type: Village with 11 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “San Carlos Estate”, “San Carlos Settlement”, and “San Carlos, Falkland Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos and Ajax Bay.
Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos
Memorial
Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos is a British war cemetery located in the Falkland Islands, where the remains of 14 of the 255 British servicemen who were killed during the 1982 Falklands War are buried, along with one serviceman who died in early 1984.
Ajax Bay
Ajax Bay is an abandoned former refrigeration plant and wartime landing point on the north-west coast of East Falkland in the Falkland Islands, facing San Carlos Water a few miles from Port San Carlos. Ajax Bay is situated 2 miles west of San Carlos.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port San Carlos.
Port San Carlos
Hamlet
San Carlos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Falkland Islands, South America
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Latitude
-51.57473° or 51° 34′ 29″ south
Longitude
-59.0324° or 59° 1′ 57″ west
Population
11
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
Open location code
38W2CXG9+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“San Carlos” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “圣卡洛斯”
- Chinese: “聖卡洛斯”
- Dutch: “San Carlos, Falkland Islands”
- German: “San Carlos”
- Hebrew: “סן קרלוס”
- Japanese: “サン・カルロス (フォークランド諸島)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Carlos”
- Norwegian: “San Carlos”
- Russian: “Сан-Карлос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Carlos, Falklandi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Carlos”
- Spanish: “Establecimiento San Carlos”
- Spanish: “San Carlos (Islas Malvinas)”
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