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Falkland Islands

  • Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Stanley draws up plans for stranded cruise passengers.

    A CONTINGECY plan is being written up for Stanley so that the town will be better prepared if it ever again finds itself overnight host to hundreds of stranded cruise ship passengers.

  • Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Hardman Provide Falklands Licence Area Update.

    Hardman Resources has been advised by the operator Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd that it has completed recording approximately 85% of the planned 4,900 kilometre 2D seismic survey in their 33,000 square kilometre licence areas to the south and east of the Falkland Islands (Hardman (22.5%) is in joint venture with FOGL (77.5%).

  • Wednesday, February 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Landmines Team in the Falklands.

    A four-member team returned Tuesday to the United Kingdom after a week spent discussing with Falkland Islanders their experiences of living alongside landmines.

  • Wednesday, February 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Next of Kin Visit: “No Flags Please, We're British”

    THE families of Argentine war dead will be under strict instructions to fly no national flags during the dedication of the Darwin War Memorial in March.

  • Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    Avian Cholera to blame for South Georgia penguin deaths.

    THE deaths of hundreds of Chinstrap penguins at Cooper Bay, South Georgia late last year have been blamed on Avian Cholera (Pasturella multocida), a bacterium that has previously been identified in the Antarctic and other sub-Antarctic islands.

  • Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    HMS Gloucester heading for Brazil.

    South Atlantic patrol HMS Gloucester left the Falkland Islands last Friday and is heading north towards Brazil.

  • Sunday, February 20th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

    The end of an era for ?Falklands Experience'.

    AS REGULAR as the arrival of the Rockhopper penguins, one of the sure signs of summer in the Falklands for the last twenty years has been the sighting in the streets of Stanley of Major Ronnie Spafford, leading yet another small group of eager visitors, usually of mature years, but often wearing, with varying degrees of self-consciousness, sweatshirts of psychedelic hue, emblazoned with the words “Falklands Experience”. “Ronnie makes us wear them, you know,” one lady recently confided.

  • Friday, February 18th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Penguin News Update.

    Headlines :
    No certainty as illex season begins; Rockhopper and Desire agree farm-in ?understanding'; Duvall release: public safety is ?paramount'; Liners cruising in.

  • Friday, February 18th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Red Ensign Conference concludes.

    Falklands fishing vessels could soon be crewed by Chilean officers after discussions at the Red Ensign Conference in Stanley this week.

  • Thursday, February 17th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd.
    Seismic Survey Update

    FOGL announces that it has completed recording approximately 50% of the planned 10,500 km 2D seismic survey in its 83,000 sq km licence areas to the south and east of the Falkland Islands.