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The Falkland Islands overseas territory of the UK is near to Chile's Tierra del Fuego Province and Cabo de Hornos commune.

Throughout the Chilean colonial period, British naval vessels in times of war, occasional privateers – and in times of peace British and colonial pirates, outlaws, at risk of execution by neutral parties – harassed the wealthy Spanish authorities in Chile by plundering their ships.

During the Falklands War in 1982, with the still pending Beagle conflict, Chile and Colombia became the only Latin American countries to abstain from voting in the TIAR (as did the United States and Trinidad and Tobago).

[1][2] The Chilean position is described in detail by Sir Lawrence Freedman in his book The Official History of the Falklands Campaign.