Port Howard | |
|---|---|
Settlement | |
  Port Howard Port Howard within the Falkland Islands  Port Howard Port Howard (South America) | |
| Coordinates: 51°36′58″S 59°31′23″W / 51.616°S 59.523°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Territory | Falkland Islands |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 22 |
| Time zone | UTC-03:00 (FKST) |
Port Howard is the largest settlement on West Falkland (unless Fox Bay is taken as one settlement, instead of two). It is in the east of the island, on an inlet of Falkland Sound. It is on the lower slopes of Mount Maria (part of the Hornby Mountains range).
Port Howard is the centre of an 800-square-kilometre (200,000-acre) sheep farm, with twenty-two permanent residents and around 40,000 sheep. Sometimes this population is doubled by transitory residents.
The settlement has two airstrips which receive regular flights from Stanley, and it is also the West Terminal of the new East-West Ferry.[1] The Falkland Islands Government built a network of all weather roads around East and West Falkland,[1] Port Howard is at the northern end of the West Falkland network.
Every three years, Port Howard hosts the West Falklands Sports. This week-long celebration of the end of the shearing season combines horse-racing with other festivities. The Warrah River and Chartres River are nearby fishing rivers.