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Ruggles Island () is a small island, off
East Falkland East Falkland () is the largest island of the Falkland Islands, 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 L ...
in 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 ...
. To its east is Ruggles Bay, which forms the coast of
Lafonia Lafonia is a peninsula forming the southern part of East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands. Geography and geology Shaped like the letter "E", it is joined to the northern part of the island by an isthmus that is almost wide. Wer ...
on East Falkland. It is just north of
Speedwell Island Speedwell Island (formerly Eagle Island; Spanish ''Isla Águila'') is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the Falkland Sound, southwest of Lafonia, East Falkland. The island has an area of , measuring approximately from north to south and a ...
. The island has a couple of wrecks off it. * In September 1860, the US clipper ''Sea Ranger'' went under here. * In September 1885, the Italian ship ''Luigrya'' sank here, with a hold full of marble statues, which it is said in local folklore can still be seen under the water. In 1994 a small team of divers from Port Stanley- Dave Eynon, Mike Triggs, Simon Goss and Phil Rozee discovered the Luigrya lying in about 8 metres of water of the coast of Ruggles Island, its cargo of marble is still intact.


References

* Ewen Southby-Tailyour, ''Falkland Island Shores''. Islands of the Falkland Islands {{Falklands-geo-stub