Mare Harbour is a small settlement on East Falkland, on Choiseul Sound. It is mostly used as a port facility and depot for RAF Mount Pleasant, as well as a deepwater port used by the Royal Navy ships patrolling the South Atlantic and Antarctica, which means that the main harbour of the islands, Stanley Harbour tends to deal with commercial transport.
During the 1982 Falklands War, Mare Harbour was considered as one of the potential sites for a British amphibious landing but, in the event, the British landings took place on San Carlos Water in the west of East Falkland, on Falkland Sound. Mare Harbour was considered open to air attack.
A daily bus service (including Saturday and Sunday) runs between Mare Harbour and Mount Pleasant.
Famous quotes containing the words mare and/or harbour:
“It’s a very odd thing—
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.;”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“Patience, the beggar’s virtue, Shall find no harbour here.”
—Philip Massinger (1583–1640)