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Articles on the Falkland Islands should use measures in use locally, which can be assumed to be the same as those in use in the UK. Therefore, unless there is a good reason (as determined by consensus) to use some other unit, the "most appropriate units" to be put first on articles strongly associated with the Falkland Islands should be determined according to the following guidelines:
In general, put metric units first and follow with imperial and US customary units as appropriate. Where this would create significant inconsistency with the exceptions to this rule noted below, put imperial units first and follow with metric and US customary units. Articles should be internally consistent with respect to the units used in a given context.
The following are exceptions to the metric-first rule:
In contexts where the Manual of Style explicitly prefers one set of units such as to override the general rule that the most appropriate unit is put first (for example for all nominal or defined units), put that unit first.
In any case where the primary units do not match the source units, note this in the citation.