"Key to the Pacific" no more. The 1914 Falklands battle and the Strategic Role of the Islands

• Main Author: Borsani, Davide
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: University of Sofia Press 2015
• Subjects: Falklands; World War; Settore SPS/06 - STORIA DELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI; Argentine; Cape Horn; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10807/84402

During the Eighteenth century, the British Admiralty had gradually convinced itself that the Falkland Islands would become «Undoubtedly the key to the whole Pacifick Ocean» from a strategic perspective. Even in the Nineteenth century the Falklands, due to their geographical location, provided a safe...