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(Protestant (mainly Anglican and Presbyterian), Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Seventh-day Adventist) Bahá'í minority |
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Falkland Islanders (also called Kelpers[2], Falklanders; Spanish: Malvinenses, Malvineros/as) are the people of the British overseas territory of Falkland Islands.
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The Falkland Islanders derive from the numerically small but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Falkland Islands comprising and descending in part from settlers brought by Luis Vernet, and English and American sealers; South American gauchos who settled in the 1840s and 1850s, and since the late 1830s and early 1840s onwards settlers from Britain and other countries including various European nations, most recently with especially significant contributions from St. Helena and Chile.[3][4]
The Islanders are British, albeit with a distinct identity of their own:
| “ | British cultural, economic, social, political and educational values create a unique British-like, Falkland Islands. Yet Islanders feel distinctly different from their fellow citizens who reside in the United Kingdom. This might have something to do with geographical isolation or with living on a smaller island – perhaps akin to those British people not feeling European. (Lewis Clifton, Speaker of the Falklands Legislative Council)[5] | ” |
They also see themselves as no different from other immigrant nations including those of neighbouring South America:
| “ | We are as much a people as those in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile and many other South American countries whose inhabitants are of principally European or African descent. (Councillor Mike Summers)[6] | ” |
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
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   | ''Seventeenth periodic reports of States parties due in 2002: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'' - United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| | ''The Future of the Falkland Islands and Its People'' - Falklands Malvinas - THE FUTURE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND ITS PEOPLE |
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