History of a Voyage to the Falkland Islands

of all Europe; but it is demonstrated that Mr. de Bougainville Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), a French admiral and explorer who established the first settlement on the Falklands. had taken possession of the Malouine Islands The Falkland Islands; the French name "Malouines" derives from the mariners of St. Malo., at the time when the Dauphin, commanded by Byron John Byron (1723–1786), a British vice-admiral who claimed the islands for Great Britain in 1765., was still in the shipyard; and there was perhaps never a right more incontestable than that of France over this region: for her shipowners were the first to land there; her historians were the first to describe it; and what is even more interesting for humanity, she did not take it from men, but from harmful or useless insects, from spiders and from rattles original: "grelots"; likely referring to a type of insect or small rattling creature found by the explorers..

Dom Pernety Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–1796), a Benedictine monk and naturalist who accompanied Bougainville., who observed the Malouine Islands as a philosopher, is persuaded that they formerly were part of the country of the

Patagonians and of the Land of Fire Tierra del Fuego.. I thought as he did even before having read him; it is certain that one sees in all parts of the Universe traces of these great revolutions of the globe: Sicily was formerly united to Italy, Spain to Africa, and France to Great Britain: the Island of Finland Likely referring to the Fennoscandian region or specific islands in the Baltic. clearly appears to have been separated from Greenland, and recently the Russian Professor Kracheninnikow Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711–1755), a Russian explorer and geographer of Siberia. has demonstrated that the continent of America was formerly attached to Asia by Kamchatka (1): eruptions—

(1) According to the account of this learned foreigner, the Continent of America extends from the South-West to the North-East almost everywhere at an equal distance from the coasts of Kamchatka, and the two coasts seem parallel, especially from the point of the Kurils to Cape Chukotska. There are only two and a half degrees