Two good friends from BC sent me this photo last week with a cryptic message:

Here is a picture of a mystery Anglican Church. We came across it recently in our travels, built around the mid 1800's, it serves a congregation which has seen war on its doorstep.

Any guesses?

I had no idea and took a wild guess that it was somewhere in the American southern states. Way off! It’s Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley (formerly Port Stanley), Falkland Islands–the southernmost cathedral in the world. The church’s full name is the Church of England Parish Church of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the British Antarctic Territories. The extra-provincial Anglican parish is under the direct jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The cathedral was built in the early 1890s following the destruction of the former church in a heavy rain storm. The archway in the front of the church is made from whale bones and stands almost 20 feet tall. It was erected in 1933 to celebrate a century of British rule.

A census in 2001 showed that Stanley had 1989 residents, while the Falkland Islands had 2379 residents.

The Falkland Islands Information Web Portal is located here. A map showing how close the Falkland Islands are to Antarctica is on this page.