North Arm is a settlement in
Lafonia, the southern part of
East Falkland
East Falkland ( es, Isla Soledad) is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, having an area of or 54% of the total area of the Falklands. The island consists of two main land masses, of which the more southerly is known as La ...
, in 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 ...
, It is on the south coast, on the shore of the
Bay of Harbours, and overlooks
Sea Lion Island
Sea Lion Island ( es, Isla de los Leones Marinos) is the largest of the Sea Lion Island Group of the Falkland Islands. It is in area. and lies southeast of Lafonia (East Falkland). It was designated a Ramsar site on 24 September 2001,< ...
in the distance. In 2007, the population was 25 people, six of them children.
It is the largest settlement on East Falkland south of
Goose Green
Goose Green is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. It lies on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, south-southwest of Darwin. With a population of about 40, it is the third-largest ...
. North Arm is from
Stanley, and it takes four and a half hours to drive there.
[Wigglesworth, Angela. (1992) ''Falkland People''. Pub. Peter Owen. .]
:''"In the 1893-4 season, the steam shearing machine was introduced to the
Falkland Islands Company farm at North Arm.''"
[Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'']
Despite this hand shearing continued at many other farms until the early 1960s.
North Arm was owned by the
Falkland Islands Company until 1991, when it was sold to the government.
There is a school, a community centre and a shop that opens for three hours a week.
The North Arm farm itself is in size.
References
Populated places on East Falkland
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