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Why did Louis-Antoine de Bougainville call the islands the Malovines?
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In 1764, the French navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville established the first settlement on the Falkland Islands. He named the islands the Malouines (or Malovines) after his home port of Saint-Malo, France. This name remains the origin of the term Islas Malvinas, which is how the islands are commonly known in South America.12