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kelper
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a native of the Falkland Islands FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), 1900- — Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary, p. 199, 2000
- Two hundred years later, in the early 1980s, another Royal marine officer described the islanders, or Kelpers as they call themselves, as "a mainly drunken, decadent, immoral and indolent collection of dropouts." — John Hughes-Wilson, Military Intelligence Blunders, p. 264, 2000
- With a total area of some 12,000 sq. km (4,633 sq. miles) the islands have a population of around 2,500 kelpers (residents, universally of British origin, with 500,000 sheep, plus penguins, geese, whales and seals for company. — Natalie Minnis, Insight Guide South America, p. 350, 2002
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