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If there's a hill the UK is prepared to die on this is it, 99.9 percent of Falkland Islanders voted to remain part of the UK in a UN observed open election subsequent to the UK retaining control of the islands. Argentina has never maintained any form of civilian population there in nearly 150 years, they want the oil and fishing rights.
Edit in 2013 another vote was held, 99.8 percent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum?wprov=sfla1
Interestingly, those islands are on argentinean sea. There're international laws that would say they are argentinean land... Even if they were occupied since maybe even before the two English invasions on Buenos Aires, a few centuries ago.
actually, I think you'll find, Argentina falls within BRITISH seas, extending outward from the shores of the Falklands.
Bad news, though: I just found out that large swathes of southern England are in France's territorial waters, and the entire city of Manchester is owned by Liverpool for the same reason.
Haha. Just like the rest of the world then, matey ;)