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Who made the first recorded landing in the Falkland Islands?
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The English captain John Strong made the first recorded landing in the Falkland Islands in 1690.1
While the English navigator John Davis is credited with the first sighting of the islands in 1592, and the Dutchman Sebald de Weerdt made the first undisputed sighting around 1600, neither of these explorers is recorded as having landed on the territory.12