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Montevideo, May 21st 2024 - 10:22 UTC

Tag: Falklands / Malvinas

  • Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

    Falkland Islands updating the Electoral Register

    Falkland Islanders like to vote and turnout is very significant

    The Falkland Islands Registration Officer is carrying out a yearly canvass with the purpose of updating the Electoral Register. Accordingly this Thursday, 15 March, all households in the Islands should receive a form V “request for information from householders” in the post.

  • Monday, March 12th 2018 - 16:34 UTC

    Falkland Islands: It's Time for Adventure!

    The Falkland Islands...one of the last great wilderness destinations on the planet, where your trip becomes an adventure. Four wheel drives are our mode of transport, and our little planes will take you to islands abundant with penguins, albatrosses and petrels that are there for you alone to discover and enjoy.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

    Argentine presentation on the Falklands and the Chagos archipelago

    The International Court of Justice in The Hague

    A brief release from the Argentine foreign ministry indicates that on March first, on petition from the International Court of Justice, Argentina presented its Consultive Opinion on the juridical consequences of splitting the Chagos archipelago from the Mauritius Islands which took place in 1965.

  • Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:15 UTC

    Falklands second flight: interest from Brazil, Chile and Uruguay airlines

    Mount Pleasant Complex, the Falklands' international airport and terminal

    The Argentine foreign ministry said on Thursday that several airlines from Brazil, Chile and Uruguay have expressed an interest in making proposals for scheduled flights to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands with stops in Argentine territory.

  • Friday, February 16th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

    Falklands angry with National Geographic; demands apology to the Islands and its people

    National Geographic images were taken for an article which could not have been produced without the explicit support of the Falkland Islands Government. Photo: Paul Nicklen / National Geographic

    Anger has been expressed in the Falkland Islands this week over a letter which was sent to the Argentine Governor of Tierra del Fuego, Rosana Bertone, by a representative of the National Geographic Foundation. The letter, dated February 8, contains an apology for the appearance of the label ‘Falkland Islands’ instead of ‘Malvinas Islands’ on photos published on Instagram, which were taken here.

  • Friday, February 9th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

    National Geographic apologizes for publishing Malvinas pictures as from the Falklands

    Last January it was announced that National Geographic February 2018 would document the Falkland Islands' diverse ecosystem by wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen.

    National Geographic has apologized to Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone for publishing in Instagram pictures identified as taken in the Falklands, instead of the Malvinas Islands. According to Ushuaia reports, aware of this situation, the Environment Secretary of Tierra del Fuego Mauro Pérez Toscani, on instructions from Ms Bertone addressed the National Geographic Foundation to express disappointment and demaning rectification of the Malvinas controversy.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 06:36 UTC

    Argentina recalls when Malvinas Islands were “illegally” occupied by British forces

    The moment the British flag is raised in the Falklands in 1833, recalled in a stamp

    In advance of January 3rd, when Argentina recalls the date in 1833 in which allegedly British forces “illegally” occupied the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, the foreign ministry, Palacio San Martín, released a statement reaffirming its imprescriptible and inalienable sovereignty rights over the South Atlantic archipelago. This is the 185th anniversary of the event.

  • Wednesday, December 20th 2017 - 11:13 UTC

    Images of Falklands' war wrecks: HMS Coventry, HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope

    Sister HMS Ardent sank in Grantham Sound after being hit by a succession of bombs on May 21, 1982.

    Images showing the wrecks of three Royal Navy ships sunk in the Falklands War and which are the final resting places for 42 British servicemen. The remains of HMS Coventry, HMS Antelope and her sister ship HMS Ardent have been captured using sonar images taken by the survey vessel HMS Enterprise.

  • Friday, December 1st 2017 - 20:36 UTC

    Falkland/Malvinas: ICRC presents results of humanitarian forensic identification project

    The forensic team identified 88 soldiers, out of 123 graves, with a cross saying, “Argentine soldier, only known to God”, at the Darwin cemetery in Falklands

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday handed out its forensic reports resulting from the work it carried out to identify the mortal remains of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery.

  • Tuesday, November 7th 2017 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina surfaces three Spanish Malvinas documents from 1767

    Senator Cobos is no stranger to the Falklands, he visited them in June/July 2014, before launching a presidential bid

    Argentine former vice president and currently Senator of the ruling coalition, Julio Cobos has announced the discovery of three letters dated 1767, revealing an exchange of information between then Buenos Aires city governor, and Felipe Ruiz Puente, described as the first Malvinas Islands governor. At the time was part of the Spanish colonial empire.