''The Falkland Islands Journal'' is an annual

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covering all aspects of research on 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 was established in 1967.Walton, D.W.H. "The ''Falkland Islands Journal''" in ''

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'', Volume 22, Issue 140, May 1985, pp. 537–538. The first

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was W.H. Thompson, Colonial Secretary to the Falkland Islands Government, who in the first issue wrote that "(t)he idea behind the Journal is to promote interest in the Falkland Islands and their history. Editorial policy is to publish items of interest from the past and present. Politics do not come into it." Since 1990, the editor has been Jim McAdam (

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).Contacts
Falkland Islands Journal, 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2014.

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* History of the Falkland Islands Academic journals established in 1967 Annual journals Area studies journals English-language journals {{falklands-stub