Hookers Point

Hookers Point
Punta Hookers
A wide sandy beach with a range of rocks running right to left and disappearing into the sea
Hookers Point viewed looking south
Interactive map of Hookers Point
Coordinates: 51°42′04″S 57°47′00″W / 51.70101°S 57.78329°W / -51.70101; -57.78329
LocationFalkland Islands

Hookers Point (Spanish: Punta Hookers), sometimes spelt as Hooker's Point, is a headland east of Port Stanley, on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. It is located on the eastern coast of East Falkland on the road between Port Stanley and Port Stanley Airport. It is 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) west of Stanley and is named after Sir Joseph Hooker who visited the islands in 1842 as part of an antarctic expedition.

In 1972, an airfield was opened at Hookers Point (called Hooker's Point) which hosted international flights to Argentina for five years until the present Port Stanley Airport was opened in 1977.

In December 1980, the site was adopted by the senior school at Port Stanley as a project to return wildlife to the point and stop erosion of the land. In April 1982, the site was occupied by Royal Marines during the Argentine invasion of the islands.

Magellanic penguins used to dig burrows about 3 metres (10 ft) deep to raise their chicks at Hookers Point.

References

  1. ↑ Panaretos, Panayiotis; Monteath, Alistair J.; Thomas, Zoë A.; Albert, Paul G.; Jensen, Britta J.L.; Tamhane, James; Woudstra, Shaun; Jones, Gwydion; Scaife, Rob; Bentley, Michael J. (December 2025). "Distal cryptotephra records in the Falkland Islands refine South American tephrochronology". Quaternary Science Reviews. 369: 3. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109599.
  2. ↑ "Base de datos de nombres geograficos de Las Islas Malvinas" (PDF). www.hidro.gov.ar (in Spanish). p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Gilding, P. (1981). "Report on Hookers Point". The Warrah (1). Falklands Conservation: 23a. ISSN 1357-9460.
  4. ↑ Scaife, Robert G.; Long, Antony J.; Monteath, Alistair J.; Hughes, Paul D. M.; Bentley, Michael J.; Stone, Philip (November 2019). "The Falkland Islands' palaeoecological response to millennial‐scale climate perturbations during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition: Implications for future vegetation stability in the southern ocean islands". Journal of Quaternary Science. 34 (8): 3. doi:10.1002/jqs.3150.
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  6. ↑ Gilding, P. (1981). "Report on Hookers Point". The Warrah (1). Falklands Conservation: 22. ISSN 1357-9460.
  7. ↑ Van der Bijl, Nicholas (2007). Victory in the Falklands: Falklands War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword. p. 16. ISBN 9781844154944.
  8. ↑ Boyson, V. F. (1924). The Falkland Islands. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 294. OCLC 1999198.