Canopus Hill
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| Canopus Hill | |||
| Falkland Islands | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| East Falkland | |||
| Summit: | 105 feet 51°41’24"S, 57°47’17"W | ||
Canopus Hill is a little hill, just 105 feet high on the peninsula on which Stanley Airport is built, north-east of the islands' capital, Stanley. It is on East Falkland, the largest of the Falkland Islands.
The hill is named after HMS Canopus, which fired the first shots in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, during the First World War.[1]
The hill overlook Yorke Bay, where the main Argentine invasion force landed in 1982 at the opening of the Falklands War.
References
- ↑ Burt, R. A. British Battleships 1889-1904, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1988, ISBN 0-87021-061-0, p. 154.