Scattered around the world: British overseas territories
Elsewhere in the world there are several British overseas territories, such as St Helena and the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. They have links with the UK too, but they are not part of the UK.
Most overseas territories are left over from the British Empire. Besides these two, there are others such as Gibraltar at the southern tip of Spain, Bermuda in the Atlantic, and the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific. They reach as far as Antarctica.
Some of these places have dramatic stories. St Helena is a lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic, so far from any continent that Britain sent Napoleon there after defeating him at Waterloo in 1815; he died on the island in 1821 (see A Global Power). In 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, and Britain sent a fleet of warships to take them back in the Falklands War (see Britain Since 1945). And on the Pitcairn Islands, home to only a few dozen people, many are descended from the sailors who seized the British ship HMS Bounty in a mutiny in 1789.
Quiz
Which TWO of these are British overseas territories?
St Helena and the Falkland Islands are overseas territories. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are Crown dependencies. Neither group is part of the UK, but they have different names, and the test may try to mix them up.