As Britain marks events 100 years on from the First World War, UK tourists are being invited to visit battlefields from a more-recent conflict. <\/p>\n
The Falklands Islands Tourist Board is expecting a rise in the number of British visitors in 2015 with tourists able to learn more about the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina. <\/p>\n
Trips will include tours of the battlefields of Goose Green and Mount Tumbledown while a recently-opened museum at Port Stanley features an exhibition recalling the 1982 conflict in the South Atlantic. <\/p>\n
The museum also shows off the islands' long maritime history and houses a relocated radio and telecommunications hut which was used in the 1982 war by schoolchildren who were able to reassure their parents they were safe. <\/p>\n
The museum incorporates three of the oldest building in Stanley and there are plans to, eventually, include the jail which dates from the 1840s. <\/p>\n
Noted for its abundant wildlife, the Falklands was visited by naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1830s. The settlement of Darwin on East Falkland was named after him. <\/p>\n
The islands' tourist board plans to open a London office in 2015, with the board predicting the number of UK visitors to the Falklands will top 3,000 in 2015. <\/p>\n
The London office will market the island not only to UK travellers but to those of the US and emerging markets. <\/p>\n
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