Salvador Settlement, also called Salvador, Salvador Settlement Corral, is a small

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and

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on East Falkland, in the

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, It is on the north east coast, on the south shore of Port Salvador. It is one of a handful of Spanish place names on the islands, still in use. It was founded by Andrés Pitaluga, a

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, in the 1830s, who arrived from

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via continental

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. His descendants still run the

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there and the settlement is therefore sometimes referred to as "''Gibraltar Station''" or "''Gibraltar Settlement''".

References

Populated places on East Falkland 1830s establishments in the British Empire {{Falklands-geo-stub