[AU72]

Don’t they mean “The Maldives”?

[Mr. Lucky]

Let's see. The Argentines had the General Belgrano and the Brits have the HMS Dauntless. My guess is that the islands remain the Falklands.

[SargeK]

Yep, that would be what the TOTUS calls it.

The rest of the Spanish-speaking world might refer to it as “las Malvinas”.

Heh. And they thought Quayle was dumb.

[stormer]

Uh, the Maldives are south of India in the Indian Ocean. Isla Malvinas is the Spanish name for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.