Ruggles Island
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| Coordinates: 52°04′30″S 59°44′12″W / 52.07500°S 59.73667°W | |
| Country | Falkland Islands |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (FKST) |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all islands and all inhabited islands in the Falklands respectively. | |
Ruggles Island (Spanish: Isla Calista) is a small island, off East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. The island is contained within Falklands Sound,[1] and to its east is Ruggles Bay, which forms the coast of Lafonia on East Falkland.[2][3] It is just north of Speedwell Island,[4] with Clump island to the north-west, and Flat Wolfe Island to the east.[5]
The island, and Ruggles Bay, have shipwrecks; In September 1860, the US clipper Sea Ranger was lost off the island, and in September 1874, the Sangreal was lost in Ruggles Bay.[6] In September 1885, the Italian ship Luigia sank here,[7] with a hold full of marble statues.[6] However, some of the cargo was saved and it was forwarded to Valparaiso for auction, with 50% of the proceeds going to the salvage crew.[8]
In the late 19th-century, parties would travel to the island to shoot the wild cattle that were on the island.[9] During the first half of the 1920s, the island was used to house 300 sheep in quarantine from the mainland of South America. By this time, the tenancy had lapsed and only 20 sheep were on the island.[10] In 1988, the island, along with various others within Falkland Sound were sold by private bid by the Falkland Islands Corporation.[11]
Flanagan Bay on the north shore of Ruggles Bay was named after a fallen British serviceman during the Falklands War. This was a project commissioned in 2022 as part of the 40th anniversary commemorations where over 250 landforms were identified and named after those who had died in the conflict.[12][13][14][15][16] The adjacent bay has two Hispancized names; Bahia Ruggles is more common, but Bahia Libertad has also been used.[17][18]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Islands off West falkland". falklands-southatlantic.com. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ Sailing directions for South America, volume II : east and west coasts between Rio de la Plata and Cabo Tres Montes, including Falkland, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands. Washington: Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center. 1976 [1952]. p. 104b. OCLC 28781823.
- ↑ "Islands". falklands-southatlantic.com. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ Sailing directions for South America, volume II : east and west coasts between Rio de la Plata and Cabo Tres Montes, including Falkland, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands. Washington: Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center. 1976 [1952]. p. 103. OCLC 28781823.
- ↑ Poncet, Sally; Passfield, Ken (2011). "Island Visit Reports for 35 tussac islands surveyed between 2009 and 2011" (PDF). falklandsconservation.com. pp. 24, 39.
- 1 2 "List of wrecks the Falkland Islands". falklands-southatlantic.com. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Various Wreck Sites (Designation) Order 1994" (PDF). legislation.gov.fk. p. 3. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Marine disasters". Liverpool Journal of Commerce. No. 7, 577. 8 February 1886. p. 6.
- ↑ "Voyage to the Pacific". Field. Vol. LXXXI, no. 2090. 14 January 1893. p. 18.
The monotony of this enforced stay was, however, much relieved by pleasant shooting excursions with the officers of H.M. ships which called in at Port Stanley. On one session, while shooting wild cattle on Ruggles Island, Mr Dewar came very near being killed by a wounded ball, which charged him and drove his horn into the buck part of his thigh, hoisted him on its head, and carried him a few yards, and then tossed him backwards into the air.
- ↑ "Regarding the import of rams from San Julian, Chile" (PDF). nationalarchives.gov.fk. pp. 30, 31, 50, 57. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ Bound, Graham (24 December 1988). "Sale of Swan Islands Group". Penguin News. No. 120. Stanley: Penguin News. p. 10. OCLC 1440461150.
- ↑ "Falkland Island landmarks named after 238 fallen in 1982". hmsardent.org. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ "Freedom of the Falkland Islands". assembly.gov.fk. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ "Falklands map with the names of British fallen during the 1982 Liberation of the Islands". MercoPress. 26 November 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ "Falkland Islands 40th Anniversary Place Names" (PDF). assembly.gov.fk. 3 June 2024. p. 10. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ "2023 GOR IP FlanaganE – South Atlantic Medal Association (82)". sama82.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ "The toponymy of the Falkland Islands as recorded on maps and in gazetteers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
- ↑ King, Philip Parker; Fitzroy, Robert (1865). Derrotero de las costas de la América Meridional desde el Río de la Plata hasta bahía de Panamá con inclusión del Estrecho de Magallanes y de las islas Malvinas y Galápagos (in Spanish). Madrid: Depósito Hidrográfico. p. 106. OCLC 1025379901.
