Government House in Stanley has been the home of the Falkland Islands' governors since the mid-19th century.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica says in the Falkland Islands article that "Government House, grey, stone-built and slated, calls to mind a manse in Shetland or Orkney."

There is a conservatory on the northern side of the building, which Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited during his tour of the Falklands in 1991.

[2] One of the world's southernmost grapevines grows there, of the Black Hamburg variety.

[4] It was the site of a major battle and of the surrender during the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands.