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{{mergefrom|Pebble Island Settlement|date=April 2018}}{{Infobox settlement | name = Pebble Island | type = Island | native_name = Isla Borbón | native_name_lang = es | other_name = | image_skyline = Pebble Island - Falkland Islands.jpg | image_caption = | image_map = Falkland Islands - Pebble Island.svg | map_caption = Location of Pebble Island | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_caption = Pebble Island shown within the Falkland Islands | coordinates = {{coord|51|18|11|S|59|37|46|W|region:FK_type:isle|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Falkland Islands | subdivision_type1 = Island group | subdivision_name1 = | named_for = Spanish: Bourbon Island | seat_type = Main settlement | seat = Pebble Island Settlement | area_total_km2 = 103.36 | area_rank = | elevation_max_m = 277 | elevation_max_footnotes = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_min_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = 2001| population_footnotes = | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = auto| timezone1 = FKST| utc_offset1 = −3| website = | footnotes = If shown, area and population ranks are for all islands and all inhabited islands in the Falklands respectively.}}Pebble Island ({{lang-es|Isla Borbón}}) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying north of West Falkland. It is probably named after the peculiarly spherical pebbles found at its western tip.==Description==The island, the fifth largest in the Falklands archipelago, stretches for {{convert|22|mi|order=flip|0}} and about {{convert|4|mi|order=flip|0}} at its widest point,[{{cite news|editor-last=Witherow|editor-first=John |title=Name your price for a Falkland isle |work=The Times |issue=72668 |date=17 October 2018 |page=21|issn=0140-0460}}] 2. ^1 2 {{cite news |title=For sale: Falklands penguin island |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46540282 |accessdate=13 December 2018 |work=BBC News |date=13 December 2018}} 3. ^1 2 Wigglesworth, Angela. (1992) Falkland People. Pub. Peter Owen. {{ISBN|0-7206-0850-3}} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Wagstaff |first1=William |title=Falkland Islands : the Bradt travel guide |date=2001 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |location=Chalfont St Peter |isbn=1-84162-037-8 |page=133}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F5811078-B4DB-42B9-8D3E-47BFB86D4B50/0/boi_hms_coventry.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=September 30, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930073019/http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F5811078-B4DB-42B9-8D3E-47BFB86D4B50/0/boi_hms_coventry.pdf |archivedate=September 30, 2012 }} page 1 6. ^http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/type-42-destroyers/hms-edinburgh/news/hms-edinburgh-commemorates-coventry-sinking/*/changeNav/00h001001004001003/outputFormat/print 7. ^{{cite web |title=Weather-beaten Falklands memorials restored in time for season of remembrance |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/october/19/171019-falklands-memorials-restored-in-time-for-season-of-remembrance |website=www.royalnavy.mod.uk |accessdate=13 December 2018}} 8. ^{{cite news|work=Wales Online|author=Clements, Laura|title=A Welshman and his family are selling an island filled with thousands of penguins|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welshman-family-selling-island-filled-15517549|date=11 December 2018|accessdate=11 December 2018}} 9. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.birdlife.org |title= Pebble Island Group|accessdate=2012-10-17 |work= Important Bird Areas factsheet |first= |last= |publisher= BirdLife International |year= 2012}}
- Stonehouse, B. (ed). (2002). Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans {{ISBN|0-471-98665-8}}
External links- {{wikivoyage-inline|Pebble Island}}
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