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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stanley

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Christ Church Cathedral

    Christ Church Cathedral, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, is the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world. It is the parish church of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories.

    200 m · Anglican church building in Stanley, Falkland Islands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sapper Hill

    Sapper Hill is on East Falkland, located just south of Stanley, the Falklands Islands capital. It is named after a troop of sappers who were once billeted at Moody Brook barracks.

    1.7 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Mary's Church, Falkland Islands

    St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church located at 12 Ross Road, Stanley, Falkland Islands.

    600 m · church in Stanley, Falkland Islands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    1982 Liberation Memorial

    The 1982 Liberation Memorial is a war memorial in Stanley, Falkland Islands. It commemorates all British Forces and supporting units that served in the Falklands War and helped liberate the Falkland Islanders from Argentine military occupation in 1982.

    800 m · war memorial in Stanley, Falkland Islands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Stanley

Airports
Mount Pleasant / RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), 43 km
  • Mount Pleasant → Stanley
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Rio Gallegos → Stanley
    785 km · quickest by air, 6h 58m · AR$134,220–208,040
    GuideToday
  • Punta Arenas → Stanley
    899 km · quickest by air, 9h 41m · CLP$115,350–178,790
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stanley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stanley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextCarcass Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland New Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland Pebble Island, an island to the north of West Falkland Port Howard, on West Falkland, accessible by air or by road then a ferry Saunders Island, an island to the west of West Falkland Sea Lion Island, the most southerly inhabited island in the Falkland Islands West Point Island, a small island to the west of West Falkland Go further south to South Georgia and then Antarctica, possibly on a cruise ship

From Wikivoyage: Stanley (Falkland Islands), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    El ChalténAR

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,096 km
  2. 02
    ChiloéCL

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,573 km
  3. 03
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,321 km
  4. 04
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    3,384 km
  5. 05
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    3,559 km

If you know how people move in Stanley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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