Port Howard is on the north-east of West Falklands, on an inlet of Falkland Sound, and on the slopes of Mount Maria. 
The settlement has two airstrips and hosts the West Terminal of the East-west Falkland ferry. It is linked to other settlements by a network of roads. 
One of the few original farms not to have been sub-divided, Port Howard is a large 800sq km (200,000ac) sheep farm supporting 40,000 sheep. There are around 20 permanent residents but the settlement often has transitory residents staying at Port Howard Lodge. 

History
In 1866 James Ludgrove Waldron, a Wiltshire sheep farmer looking for somewhere to establish a sheep farm, requested a lease for 42,000 acres of West Falkland. In June 1867 West Falklands officially opened to settlers and on 15 November 1867 he and his brother Henry took out a lease on Port Howard. They arrived in September 1867, having chartered the Diana, a barque of 223 tons to bring all his requirements from England which included Exmoor sheep and some Merinos which he picked up in Montevideo. Also on board were wooden sectional buildings. James Waldron had the foresight to realise that the Falkland Islands were better suited to sheep farming than cattle. His enterprise flourished, despite the Falkland Islands Company refusing to sell stock to him. Houses, a wool shed and a dip were in place by 1876. Horses were imported from Rio Negro.  Several gauchos were employed to kill the wild cattle, necessary to make way for the sheep but also for their hides which gave some ready income. Waldron invested heavily in establishing and stocking his station and was noted for being fair and considerate to his shepherds and labourers. 
Although the Waldrons only stayed until June 1889 when James left to return to England, Port Howard remained in the Waldron family under management until 1990 when it was bought by the Lee family who had long worked on the farm. 
List of men at Port Howard1897- 1900
F. ASHLEY, J. SKILLING JNR, C. DIXON. A. MCLEOD, W. BROWNING, S. LEE, J. LEE, F. SIMPSON, COX, H. HALL, S. PAICE, M. PAICE, S. BRAXTON, C. COXHEAD, C. LEE, J. LEE, S. SIMPSON, J. PERRY


1888 Report on the Blue Book by JA Going Assistant Colonial Surgeon: Port Howard; Has seven houses at the Settlement, and five detached houses. Population 42, two births, one death, no infectious disease, diarrhoea prevelent. 

Port Howard was 7 hours ride for the Doctor from his base at Fox Bay East

1896 At the Magistrates court at Fox Bay before the Stipendiary Magistrate Archibald Waldron V William Saunders
William Saunders; Charge:- on the 25th January 1896 at Port Howard did make use of abusive and threatening language towards Archibald Waldron.
DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY.
Archibald Waldron –sworn ‘I am 2nd manager at Port Howard. I was in the wool shed. I told Saunders to shear more sheep and not to talk so much. He then called me a ‘God Damned Bastard’ and if he was not in the wool shed he would break my bloody jaw. This was on the 25th January last. He called me other names. Defendant is employed on the station’.
Defendant admits saying the words but said he had had a drop of drink. 
Fined 20/- and 5/- costs. Paid

MEN AT PORT HOWARD 1899/1900
F. ASHLEY, J. SKILLING JNR, C. DIXON. A. MCLEOD, W. BROWNING, S. LEE, J. LEE, F. SIMPSON, COX, H. HALL, S. PAICE, M. PAICE, S. BRAXTON, C. COXHEAD, C. LEE, J. LEE, S. SIMPSON, J. PERRY

Travelling Teachers. 

Port Howard would be on the 'North Camp beat'. Shepherd families in the outside houses seem to have been reluctant to have him. The teacher had to keep a diary recording a concise summary of work done during each visit and of the work prepared by the children during the intervals of the visits, along with the ages of the children. Every quarter it was supposed to be duly presented to the Magistrate at Fox Bay. The Colonial Secretary complained in July 1902 that Mr Meldrum’s diary for the quarter ended 30th March 1902 seemed to have taken six weeks to reach Magistrate Hurst at Fox Bay before it had been forwarded on to Stanley. Also school on Saturdays did not seem to be happening and it should be remedied. 
The new Schoolmaster for the West, J. Slater, seems to have got the ‘North Camp’ including Port Howard as he found his services were ‘not required until after 4th May as their governess’ time did not expire till then (she married). Jas Slater seemed more enthusiastic accepting good excuses for not having the teacher. Mr Hall (ill, couldn’t fetch teacher), Mr Chas E Lee, New House, Plain (wouldn’t need teacher until summer, children at school in Port Howard), Mr ? of Purvis (children staying with Mr McLeod, The Ponds, so house shut up) Mr McLeod of The Ponds (no room for the teacher), Mr McAskill, the Saddle (did not arrive to pick me up, no reason sent). 
Jas Slater found more difficulties for taking over the teaching at Port Howard when the Governess married. There were three families in Port Howard with ‘three or four Paices, three Skillings and one Braxton’. The cookhouse formerly a used as school was in other use. None of the houses would allow him to take them together (although the boy of Braxton could go to the Paices). Both houses wanted four weeks teaching but he could only give each of the two houses of Paice and Skilling a fortnight. Mr Simpson of Shag Cove wanted him in the winter when all his family was at home.

The telephone line between Port Howard and Little Chartres (the exchange at Goring House) was erected at the end of World War 1.