A small wolf, the warrah, the loup-renard of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, is extinct, the last having been seen about 1875 on West Falkland.

To the west are some white sandy beaches with clean water and rolling sand dunes with tall grass.

Set just back from the top of the cliffs is a single wooden hut locally referred to as Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The quartzites of Port Stephens and Stanley are more resistant than the arenaceous sediments of the formation at Fox Bay.

The Hornby Mountains, near Falkland Sound have experienced tectonic forces of uplift and folding which has inclined the quartzite beds of Stanley to the vertical.

In the margins of these depressions there is evidence of contact baking or hornfels formation adjacent to the once molten basalt dyke.

Captain John Strong of the Welfare made the first recorded landing on either of the main islands (West and East Falkland) on 29 January 1690 at Bold Cove on the other side of the headland from Port Howard.

He said: Although Strong recorded a lack of wood in the area, driftwood frequently washes up on Falkland beaches.

The government issued a proclamation offering leases of grazing stations on very moderate terms and in 1868 all the available land was occupied.