Fifty calibre rounds exploded in burning bushes as the Falkland Islands Fire and Rescue Service battled a gorse-bush fire in the early hours of January 6. Watch Manager Gene Berntsen told Penguin ...

The Falkland Islands, a group of 740 islands located in ... see rolling plains for miles — interrupted only by the thorny gorse shrub which reigns supreme. A few pines, lakes, creeks and ponds ...