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Who made the first undisputed European sighting of the Falkland Islands?
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The Dutchman Sebald de Weerdt is credited with making the first undisputed European sighting of the Falkland Islands around 1600. While the English navigator John Davis may have sighted the islands in 1592, his claim is not considered definitive.1