San Carlos, Falkland Islands
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San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. It is named after the ship San Carlos, which visited in 1768, and grew in the early twentieth century around a factory which froze sheep carcasses.
San Carlos was the main British Army bridgehead during the Falklands War, and a museum and the British War Cemetery commemorate that period.Template:BritOT-geo-stub