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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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The Turkey Buzzard (Cathartes aura) or John Crow as it is called in Jamaica, is a small, black species of vulture found in the Americas from Saskatchewan south to the Falkland Islands. The Turkey Buzzard has a whitish bill and a tuft of bristles in front of red eyes. The head and upper neck are naked. The Turkey Buzzard is a carrion feeder and acts as a scavenger.
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Tussac Grass or tussock grass (Aira caespitosa, Festuca fllabellata and Dactylis coespitosa) is a large growing hardy perennial grass of the order Gramineae native to the Falkland Islands, from where it was introduced to Scotland and other parts of Britain as a cattle food. It grows to a height of two metres with long tapering, leathery leaves, stout, smooth leafy stems and flowers borne in a plume-like cluster, many-branched bearing shining purplish spikelets.
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville was a French navigator. He was born in 1729 at Paris and died in 1811. He started his career as a Lawyer before entering the army and fighting with distinction in Canada under the Marquis of Montcalm. Later returning to France he joined the Navy, and in 1763 undertook command of a colonising expedition to the Falkland Islands, which was abandoned as the Spanish had a prior claim to the islands. He then made a voyage around the world which made many important geographical discoveries. He acted as a naval commander in the American War of Independence and was made a senator and count by Napoleon.
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Count Maximilian von Spee was a German sailor. He was born in 1861 at Copenhagen and died in 1914. He was one of the creators of the German navy and in 1914 was in command of the Far Eastern squadron. On the outbreak of the Great War he escaped from Chinese waters and on the 1st of November defeated Admiral Cradock's squadron at Coronel, but on the 8th of December was decisively beaten by Admiral Sturdee at the Battle of The Falkland Islands, he himself going down with his flagship, the Scharnhorst.
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The Battle of Falkland Islands was a naval battle of the Great War. It occurred on December 8th 1914 between the English and German squadrons. The Germans were lured to the Falkland Islands by a bogus cable sent to Berlin by a British spy, and there were ambushed and almost completely wiped out, only the light cruiser Dresden escaping.
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HMS Canopus was a British first class battleship of 12950 tons launched in 1897. The Canopus Class included six battleships, all obsolete before the Great War with a top speed of just 18 knots and was armed with four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch and twenty smaller guns and four torpedo tubes. HMS Canopus fired the first shot in the Battle of The Falkland Islands in 1914, though she wasn't actually involved in the engagement.
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HMS Conqueror is a British Churchill Class fleet submarine of 4800 tons displacement dived launched in 1969. HMS Conqueror is powered by a pressurised water-cooled PWR 1 nuclear reactor driving English Electric geared steam turbines providing a top speed of 28 knots. She carries a crew of 116 including 13 officers and is armed with McDonnell Douglas UGM-84B Sub-Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles and six 21 inch bow torpedo tubes taking the Marconi Tigerfish Mk 24 Mod 2 torpedo or mines can be carried in place of torpedoes. HMS Conqueror was the first nuclear -powered submarine, of any nation, to fire in anger, controversially sinking the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano while she steamed away from the Falkland Islands exclusion zone in May 1982 .
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HMS Danae was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by the HM Dockyard at Devonport and launched in 1965. She was armed with four Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles; three quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and six 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes arranged in two triples . She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 223. In 1982 she sailed to the Falkland Islands as an escort to HMS Illustrious, during the Falklands War. In 1991 she was transferred to Ecuador and renamed Moran Verde.
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The Endeavour was a British collier barque launched in 1764 as the Earl of Pembroke before being purchased by the British Admiralty and fitted out for a scientific journey to the South Seas to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti and ascertain whether a southern continent existed. Endeavour was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook and left Plymouth in 1768, returning to England in 1771 where she was refitted and made three subsequent voyages to the Falkland Islands before being sold in 1775 and returning to work as a collier. In 1790 she was bought by the French and used as a whaler under the name La Liberte until she ran aground off Newport, Rhode Island in 1793.
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