Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833) sent. An approach to Lieutenant Lowcay to retrieve his property was rebuffed but later he was requested to remove his property as the Government could not be responsible for it. Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833) In December 1832, two naval vessels were sent by the United Kingdom to re-assert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (), after the United Provinces of the River Plate (part of which later became Argentina) ignored British diplomatic protests over the appointment of Luis Vernet as governor of the Falkland Islands and a dispute over fishing rights. In 1765, Captain John
Falkland Islands wolf Falkland Islands wolf The Falkland Islands wolf ("Dusicyon australis"), also known as the warrah ( or ) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. This endemic canid became extinct in 1876, the first known canid to have become extinct in historical times. It was the only modern species in the genus "Dusicyon". Traditionally it had been supposed that the most closely related genus was "Lycalopex", including the culpeo, which has been introduced to the Falkland Islands in modern times. However, in 2009, a cladistic