The stone runs form glacier-like streams of hard angular quartzitic boulders and blocks, varying in size from 20 cm to metres long, running down valleys and valley sides. Awesome to look at at ground level, the patterns and stripes are spectacular when viewed from the air. They very well may formed from repeated freezing and thawing processes that began during the last Ice Age 15,000 years ago. Stone runs are greatest on East Falklands, especially on the Wickham Heights where some run for 5km (3.10 miles), including Mount Challenger and the mountains nearer to Stanley, and then there is the huge Prince's Street ( named by Charles Darwin for his hometown and Prince's Street Edinburgh, then cobbled) which runs for around 6.43km (4 miles) between Long Island Mountain and Mount Vernet.
Inland rock includes stone runs and the rocky outcrops on the tops of mountains. |
Plants that might be seen growing inand around inland rock and stone runs: |
![ladyslipper](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/ladyslipper.jpg) |
Lady's Slipper Calceolaria fothergillii |
![tea berries](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/Tea-berries.jpg) |
Teaberry 'Malvina Berry' Myrteola nummularia |
![snake plant](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/snake-head.jpg) |
Snake Plant Nassauvia serpens |
![balsam bog](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/balsam-bog.jpg) |
Balsam Bog Bolax gummifera |
![bead plant](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/bead-plant.jpg) |
Bead Plant Nertera granadenis |
![woolly ragwort](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/woolly-ragwort-ali.jpg) |
Falklands Woolly Ragwort Senecio littoralis |
![strawberry](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/strawberry-fruit.jpg) |
Falklands Strawberry Rubus geoides |
![almond flower](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/almond-flower-ali.jpg) |
Almond flower Luzruriaga marginata |
![](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/rock-cress.jpg) |
Falkland Rock-cress Phlebolobium maclovianum |
![silvery buttercup](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/silvery-buttercup.jpg) |
Silvery buttercup Hamadryas argentea |
![vanilla daisy](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/Vanilla-daisy.jpg) |
Vanilla Daisy Leucheria suaveolens |
![ssmooth ragwort](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/smooth-ragwort.jpg) |
Falkland Smooth Ragwort Senecio vaginatus |
![pig vine](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/pig-vine.jpg) |
Pig Vine Gunnera magellanica |
![fern small](images/Page structure/Plants flowers/80 flower icons/fern-small.jpg) |
Small Fern Blechnum penna-marina |
Birds that might be seen in inland rock habitats: |
![link to redbacked hawk](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/DSC_0030.jpg) |
Red-backed Hawk Buteo polyosoma |
![peregrine cassins falcon](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/cassins.jpg) |
Cassin's (Peregrine) Falcon Falco peregrinus cassini |
![crested caracara carancho](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/carancho.jpg) |
Crested Caracara 'Carancho' Polyborus p.plancus |
![turkey vulture](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/turkey.jpg) |
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura |
![link to falkland thrush](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/Thrush.jpg) |
Falkland Thrush Turdus falcklandii |
![dark faced ground tyrant, bluebird](images/Page structure/Bird images/bird icons/bluebird.jpg) |
Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola macloviana |