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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Miranda Bryant

‘Partying with penguins’: joy as Falklands town wins coveted city status to mark the Queen’s jubilee

A colony of around 1,000 king penguins live at Volunteer Point, north of the new city of  Stanley
A colony of around 1,000 king penguins live at Volunteer Point, north of the new city of Stanley. Photograph: Yefim Bam/Alamy

With an official population of just 2,458, Stanley became one of the world’s smallest cities last week after it was granted the status to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee.

But its celebrations promise to be anything but micro, according to the residents of the Falkland Islands capital.

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