Politics of the Falkland Islands the Falkland Islanders gained British citizenship under the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983, and on 3 October 1985 the Constitution of the Falkland Islands was established. A new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009 which modernised the Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, embedding self-determination in the main body of the constitution. The new constitution also replaced the Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly, and better explained the role of the Governor and the Chief Executive. The Argentine Republic claims the Falkland Islands (known in Spanish as "Islas Malvinas") to be part of its
Falkland Islands Dependencies British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement for administering the vauious British territories in Sub-Antarctica and Antarctica from 1843 until 1985 which were governed from the Falkland Islands and its capital Port Stanley. In the following list was the British territories that made up the Falkland Island Dependencies in the period bewteen 1917 and 1962. In 1962 the British Antarctic Territory was formed and left only South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as Falkland Islands Dependencies between 1962 and 1985. The arrangements were first