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Falkland Islands(South Atlantic Ocean)
A group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Patagonia. The first European to sight them was John Davis in 1592. Two years later they were again sighted by Sir Richard Hawkins. In 1598 they were visited by the Dutch seaman Sebald de Wert who named them the Sebald Islands; but they were renamed the Falkland Islands in 1693 by Captain Strong, of the British Navy, in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Since the eighteenth century there have been competing claims for sovereignty of the islands by Britain, France, Spain, and most recently Argentina [currently British territory].

Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)
Island group 200 miles NE of Cape Sao Roque, Brazil [Long. 32°33' W, Lat.3° 53'S].

Discovered c.1503 by Fernando de Noronha, a Portuguese participant in the dyewood trade. The main island covers 10 square miles, is volcanic in origin, and is dominated by a 1,050-foot peak.

Strategically located off the bulge of Brazil, the island was used as a penal settlement from the 1700s onwards and continued to receive a few political prisoners as late as the 1980s. The Brazilian military currently controls the territory. In 1989 the waters surrounding Fernando de Noronha were declared a Marine National Park.

Fort St. Antonio (Brazil)
Fortress at the entrance to the port of St. Salvadore.

Fish River (NSW)

Frogmore (NSW)
Mrs. O'Connell's farm of 'Frogmore' (Portion 109, parish of Londonderry) was a grant of 600 acres made on 1 January 1806, to Mrs. Mary Putland, daughter of Governor Bligh. She married Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice O'Connell on 8 May 1810 (after the death of her first husband Lieut. John Putland on 4 January 1808). The town of St. Mary's is built, in part, on this grant.

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