1690 & Captain John Strong named Falkland Strait and the Islands
1764 & Louis Antoine de Bougainville named the Islands Iles Malouines
"as usual tricky dicky has an ethnocentric view of anything inperial. if you actually read the history of the region there was an argintine colony on the island that was militarily removed by a french expidition. the argintines were the first long term colony. the french gave their rights to britain by treaty. so the inperial powers are claiming right of conquest. not acceptable in any civilized form of international law."
As usual olliamh you are totally wrong.
First to settle the French on East Falkland in 1764 Next the British on West Falkland in 1765 Oh and by the way it was the Americans (USA) that kicked the Argentines off the islands in 1831 and declared the islands to be uninhabited and free of all governance 1832 Argentine founded a penal colony that lasted from November 1832 until January 1833 when the British requested that the Argentines military garrison leave, they complied with this request From 1833 Britain established a firm and fixed colony on the Falklands