At around 51 square miles and roughly 13 miles across, one of the largest islands, an hourlong flight away, serves up one of the Falklands' coolest combinations of scenery and birdlife. Its celebrated Neck (pictured here), a narrow strip of land between two bodies of water, brings together colonies of black-browed albatrosses and several penguin species in a spectacularly exposed coastal setting. In fact, here the scale of the birdlife can even be a bit overwhelming. Albatrosses launch themselves from cliffs into the wind while rockhopper penguins negotiate rocky slopes below; gentoo and Magellanic penguins occupy other parts of the landscape. Visitors can spend hours watching the different colonies interact with an environment that remains overwhelmingly theirs. Two or three nights make far more sense than rushing through.

Read more in my post Are the Falkland Islands Worth Visiting?

Ben Tubby