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Canopus Hill is located on the
island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
of East Falkland near Stanley, the
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of the
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, 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 from Cape Dub ...
. It is named after , which fired the first shots in the Battle of the Falkland Islands during
World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
.Burt, R. A. ''British Battleships 1889-1904'', Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1988, , p. 154.


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{{Falkland Islands topics East Falkland Stanley, Falkland Islands