Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana & Suriname Posters
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.

The Falkland Island are a 776 island archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean 300 miles east from the coast of Argentina and 584 miles north of Antarctica's Elephant Island. The islands are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have been the subject of a claim to sovereignty by Argentina since the British invasion of 1833 and an invasion and defeat of the Argentinian forces in 1982.

Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River,is located in Guyana's Kaieteur National Park. The area is also claimed by Venezuela. Kaieteur Falls at 822 feet is about five times higher than Niagara Falls and about two times the height of the Victoria Falls located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa.

Suriname is the smallest independent country in South America. Eighty percent of Suriname's area is covered with rainforests, the remaining lowland coastal area along the Caribbean is cultivated and has the largest portion of the population, which include descendents of contract laborers from the Middle East, Java, and China, and West African slaves from the colonial plantation period. Twelve percent of Suriname is national parks and lakes, having been cited by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for its biodiversity. Anna Maria Sibylla Merian was an artist and naturalist who spent several years c. 1700 in the Dutch colony recording the plants and insects.