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A self-guided audio walking tour of Stanley along Ross Road and the harbour front. From the Public Jetty it passes Christ Church Cathedral, consecrated in 1892, and the Whalebone Arch of blue-whale jawbones beside it, then Victory Green with the mizzen mast of the SS Great Britain, the Historic Dockyard Museum, Cartmell Cottage, a kit house shipped from Britain in 1849, the Town Hall of 1950, and the prefabricated St Mary's and Tabernacle churches. The 1982 Liberation Memorial and Government House tell the occupation of 2 April 1982 and the surrender of 14 June, a war that cost 255 British servicemen, 649 Argentine servicemen and three Falkland Islanders. Further west come the memorial to the Battle of the Falklands of 8 December 1914 and the hull of the Jhelum, a barque of 1849 that limped into Stanley in 1870. The last two stops, Stanley Cemetery and the 1982 Memorial Wood, lie east of the jetty, where passengers come ashore by tender.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 28 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 4 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Jetty Visitor Centre, Christ Church Cathedral, Whalebone Arch.
Victory Green, Historic Dockyard Museum, Cartmell Cottage, Town Hall, St Mary's Church, Tabernacle Free Church, 1982 Liberation Memorial.
Government House, 1914 Battle Memorial, Jhelum, Stanley Cemetery, 1982 Memorial Wood.
The stone and brick cathedral consecrated in 1892, with penguin kneelers and the furled ensign of HMS Achilles inside.
A double arch of four blue-whale jawbones brought from the South Shetland Islands in 1922, set beside the cathedral.
The harbourside green with old cannons, Hotchkiss guns fired on celebration days and the mizzen mast of the SS Great Britain.
Britannia on an obelisk dedicated to those who liberated the islands on 14 June 1982, with the roll of names behind it.
The Governor's residence begun in 1845, which the Royal Marines defended for some hours when Argentine forces landed in 1982.
The mahogany hull of a barque launched in Liverpool in 1849, condemned in Stanley after Cape Horn and broken in half by a gale in 2008.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Stanley, Falkland Islands — Ross Road and the Harbour, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Christ Church Cathedral, Whalebone Arch, 1982 Liberation Memorial, Government House and Jhelum. That is about 18 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.