Golding Island (sometimes seen spelt as "Goulding Island") is one of the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

, just to the north of

West Falkland West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...

in Keppel Sound and near Keppel and

Pebble Island Pebble Island is one of the Falkland Islands, situated north of West Falkland. It is possibly named after the peculiarly spherical pebbles found at its western tip. Description The island, the fifth largest in the Falklands archipelago, stretch ...

s. It has a complex shape, with narrow headlands and bays, and a pond in the middle. Golding Island is a sheep farm, and was previously farmed together with

and Keppel Island by the Dean Brothers. The settlement is in the south east, near Hummock Point. After a raid on San Carlos Water during the

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial ...

, Capitan Garcia, an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, ...

airman, ejected from his aircraft, an Argentine A-4C Skyhawk . At the time, his body was not recovered, but was washed ashore in a dinghy in 1983. The island was also bombed during the War by the Argentines who thought that they picked up a radio transmission from here.

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* * https://web.archive.org/web/20070701060310/http://www.mainpointfarm.co.uk/falklandislands/islands.htm Islands of the Falkland Islands {{Falklands-geo-stub