Pleasant Peak

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Pleasant Peak
Falkland Islands

The Memorial on Pleasant Peak
Range: Wickham Heights
West Falkland
51°46’56"S, 58°28’22"W

Pleasant Peak is a hill amongst the Wickham Heights of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. It rises two miles north of RAF Mount Pleasant.[1]

On 6 June 1982 during the Falklands War, Pleasant Peak was the site of a friendly fire incident, when HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army Gazelle helicopter, killing all four occupants, thinking it was an enemy aircraft flying supplies to the Argentine forces.

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