Forty years after that, Ascension provided an air bridge when Britain fought for the Falkland Islands.

四十年后，阿森松岛又为英国夺回福克兰群岛架起了一道空中桥梁。

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Indeed, not a single mammal species other than the Wolf was native to the Falkland Islands, located 300 miles off the southeastern tip of south America.

除了这种狼之外，实在没有一个单一的哺乳类动物物种是原产于福克兰群岛的，该群岛位于南美洲东南端300英里外。

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The warship, which was decommissioned in 2005, played a key role in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict between Argentina and Britain, and saw action in the Gulf and the Balkans.

这艘于 2005 年退役的战舰在 1982 年阿根廷和英国之间的福兰克群岛冲突中起到了重要作用，而且在海湾战争和巴尔干半岛战争中都出现过它的身影。

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Monday in the Commons begins (at 2.30pm) with Defence questions - with one listed question raising the readiness of British forces based in the Falkland Islands - and then (assuming no statements by ministers or urgent questions) MPs will turn to the second reading of the Crime and Courts Bill, which has already been through the Lords.

BBC: Week ahead

The death knell for the junta came following the disastrous 1982 invasion of the U.K.-controlled Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

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Recalling his earliest memory of the UK's first female prime minister, Mr Cameron spoke of her "brave and resolute" decision to send a task force to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982 - when he was a teenager.

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