Onion Military Range Headquarters
Falkland Islands /
Goose Green /
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military, headquarters, RAF - Royal Air Force, firing range
Administration, support and housing buildings for the Onion Military Range in Wickham Heights, which is used to train RAF, FIDF, British Army and Royal Marine forces in combat tactics on the Falkland Islands. Throughout the range, numerous captured Argentinian military vehicles and hardware continue to be used as targets for ground and air live-fire exercises.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°41'40"S 58°37'35"W
- RAF Mount Pleasant (MTN/EGYP) 15 km
- Servicemens Living Quarters & Base Recreation Area 19 km
- Mare Harbour 23 km
- South Stanley Minefields 50 km
- Argentine Yorke Bay Minefield 56 km
- Murrell Peninsula Minefield 57 km
- Wreck of SMS Scharnhorst 189 km
- Wreck of SMS Gneisenau 204 km
- Santa Cruz Airport 725 km
- Argentine Air Force eastern dispersal area 740 km
- Wickham Heights 10 km
- Mount Usborne 13 km
- Swan Inlet Ponds 16 km
- Laguna Isla 17 km
- Machpee Lake 22 km
- Sussex Mountains 25 km
- Choiseul Sound 25 km
- Grantham Sound 34 km
- Philimore Island 34 km
- Lively Island 40 km