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    Detroit de Magellan et de l'Île Malouine. (Post 1765) E.A.P. de Prétot. Carte des Iles Malouines Nommées par les Anglois Iles Falkland. Paris, 1767 (published...
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  • The islands were named after the Breton port of Saint-Malo as the Îles Malouines, which remains the French name for the islands. In 1766, France agreed...
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  • in 1776. Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (French: Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna), an overseas collectivity: Futuna: From an endonym derived...
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    construction of the settlement at Fort Saint Louis. The islands, named les Îles Malouines by the French, are renamed las Islas Malvinas by the Spanish, and Fort...
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