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This week in #geoweirdness we again head south of the equator.
Let's look at the geographic oddities of Argentina 
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2/ First up, maps of Argentina may look a little different than you expect.
Argentina likes to make a big deal of its Antarctic claims.
It has six permanent bases and seven summer bases, and at least 11 babies have been born in "Antártida Argentina"
3/ As you can see in the map from the previous toot, Argentina claims ownership of the 
Falkland Islands (known is Spanish as the Malvinas).
The lead to a war between the UK 
and Argentina 40 years ago
@opencage "[That] lead to a war" is a little bit simplistic, but the article you link, in particular tihs section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War?useskin=vector#The_Argentine_junta
sums pretty well why there was a war.