At dawn on the 25th of April, members of the growing Australian and New Zealand community in the Falkland Islands and friends gathered together at the Cross of Sacrifice in Stanley in an act of remembrance, which echoed similar gatherings taking place all over the world.
ONE of the most long-living fish in the world, an orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), which has never been recorded in the Southwest Atlantic before, has been caught on the eastern slope of the Falkland Islands at a depth of about 770 m.
Rambling groups and fly fishing are among the latest options offered to Falkland Islands tourists by Stanley Services, the company with the longest experience in land based tourism in the Islands going back to the late eighties.
As befits a British territory, the birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, is celebrated each year in the Falkland Islands with a public holiday and a parade.
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Happy Birthday Your Majesty; Councillor unfazed by ?anti-Falklands' Argentine fishing bill; No bill for rower; Iceland opportunity; Public Family Bill discussions.
Two members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council (LegCo) are bound to Valetta, Malta next week to attend the annual conference of the British Isles and Mediterranean Region of the British Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
A bill to make provision for the representation of the British Overseas Territories in the European Union and in Parliament was presented this week by Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski from Shrewsbury and Atcham.
Research by a University of Tennessee scientist shows that tiny bacteria that help regulate greenhouse gases survive best in specific water temperatures, a finding with significant implications in the face of global climate change.
THE story behind Operation Black Buck, the incredible raid on Stanley airport by Vulcan bombers in 1982, is told in a new book due to be released in June.
THIS is the first report on fisheries activity which will be published monthly by the Fisheries Department. Statistics for March 2006