Falkland Islands

• Friday, April 10th 2009 - 09:36 UTC

  Ten cruise vessels, yachts and RN vessels visit South Georgia

  

  Ten cruise ships visited South Georgia Island in March, the last month of the main tourist season. According to SGIsland News Alert these included the unusual and beautiful 38-passenger sailing ship “Bark Europa” and one ship had a expedition group aboard who successfully completed the Shackleton Crossing from King Haakon Bay to Stromness.

• Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 12:28 UTC

  UK “considering approach” to Falklands’ continental shelf and May deadline

  

  The United Kingdom has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, or its right to make a submission to extend the continental shelf under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, but it is considering its approach in view of the May 2009 deadline.

• Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 09:10 UTC

  “Falkland Islanders unequivocally with to remain British”

  

  Argentine next of kin have “unfettered” access to the Falkland Islands since 1999 and “only last week 60 of them and families visited the Islands” points out Sukey Cameron, Falklands’ government representative in London in a response to an article published in The Guardian which referred to the recent meeting between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2009 - 01:14 UTC

  Illex squid ‘no show’ for Falklands zones

  

  The Illex fishery has been a “no show” for Falkland Islands zones so far this year, confirmed Director of Fisheries John Barton.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2009 - 00:43 UTC

  “Piggy-backed” HMS Endurance expected Wednesday in Portsmouth

  

  HMS Endurance, the Royal Navy's badly damaged Ice patrol ship, is due to arrive in the Solent, Portsmouth, aboard a heavy lift ship tomorrow Wednesday after an 8,000-mile piggy-back voyage from the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 19:21 UTC

  Antarctic fuel oil ban to impact on Falklands tourism

  

  FALKLANDS, Argentine, and Chilean cruise ship tourism is likely to be negatively impacted as a result of a ban on the use and carriage of Heavy Gas Oil (HGO) in Antarctic waters by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 21:10 UTC

  Project for the development of aquaculture in the Falklands

  

  Falkland Islands aquaculture project and research on species with potential to help develop a local industry was underlined in a piece released in the Fishupdate.com portal. Development of the aquaculture and marine farming project are part of a major review of the Falklands fisheries policy, adds the article.

• Friday, April 3rd 2009 - 11:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Royal party return after South Georgia trip; FIG restructure to offer more opportunities for locals; Seaman on trial for cocaine theft.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 13:47 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner approach to Malvinas issue infuriates Jewish community

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2009 - 10:27 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner’s Malvinas Veteran Day message from London

  

  On the 27th anniversary of the Argentine landing in Falklands/Malvinas, which triggered the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, the Argentine government will commemorate Thursday April 2 the Day of the Veteran and the Fallen in the Malvinas War.