FALKLAND ISLANDS (Continued)
Government leader: Governor and Commander in Chief J. R. W. PARKER (also High Commissioner for British Antarctic Colony)
Suffrage: universal
ECONOMY
Government budget: Colony—revenues, $5.1 million (FY68); expenditures, $5.3 million (1980-81)
Agriculture: Colony—predominantly sheep farming
Major industries: Colony—wool processing
Electric power: 1,250 kW capacity (1980); 2.5 million kWh produced (1980), 1,150 kWh per capita
Exports: Colony—$5.8 million (1978); wool, hides and skins, and other; dependencies—no exports in 1968 or 1969
Imports: Colony—$3.4 million (1978); food, clothing, fuels, and machinery; dependencies—$8,368 (1969); mineral fuels and lubricants, food, and machinery
Major trade partners: nearly all exports to the UK, also some to the Netherlands and to Japan; imports from Curacao, Japan, and the UK
Aid: economic—(1970-79) Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF, $24 million
Monetary conversion rate: 1 Falkland Island pound=US$2.3263
COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: none
Highways: 510 km total; 30 km paved, 80 km gravel, and 400 km unimproved earth
Ports: 1 major (Port Stanley), 4 minor
Civil air: no major transport aircraft
Airfields: 2 total, 2 usable, 1 with permanent surface runways; 1 with runways 1,200-2,439 m
Telecommunications: government-operated radiotelephone networks providing effective service to almost all points on both islands; approximately 530 telephones (est. 29.2 per 100 popl.); 1 AM station
FAROE ISLANDS
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LAND
1,340 km2; less than 5% arable, of which only a fraction cultivated; archipelago consisting of 18 inhabited islands and a few uninhabited islets
WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 3 nm; fishing 200 nm
Coastline: 764 km
PEOPLE
Population: 45,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.2% (current)
Nationality: noun—Faroese (sing., pl.); adjective—Faroese
Ethnic divisions: homogeneous white population
Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
Languages: Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish
Literacy: 99%
Labor force: 15,000; largely engaged in fishing, manufacturing, transportation, and commerce
GOVERNMENT
Official name: Faroe Islands
Type: self-governing province within the Kingdom of Denmark; 2 representatives in Danish parliament
Capital: Torshavn on the island of Streymoy
Political subdivisions: 7 districts, 49 communes, 1 town
Legal system: based on Danish law; Home Rule Act enacted 1948
Branches: legislative authority rests jointly with Crown, acting through appointed High Commissioner,' and 32-members provincial parliament (Lagting) in matters of strictly Faroese concern; executive power vested in Crown, acting through High Commissioner, but exercised by provincial cabinet responsible to provincial parliament
