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HMS Scott leaves Plymouth for the 2010/2011 Antarctic season
The Royal Navy deep water survey ship HMS Scott deployed to the Antarctic early morning Thursday from Plymouth, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott's final expedition to the area. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules” ... The UK’s claim to the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is the oldest in Antarctica dating back to letters patent issued in 1908....”
Nov 25th, 2010 - 11:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Make a note Argentina .... first come, first served :-)
We saw this fine ship leave Plymouth, interestingly she was very heavenly laden , And she is heading south past the Falklands ???
Nov 25th, 2010 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Onions? Tomatoes? Missiles?
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
My guess is more likely vast amounts of the former, probably to be transferred to RRS Ernest Shackleton (the larger of the two BAS icebreakers/logistics ships) when they both get to Stanley or Gryvitkin.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0(4)
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0GRYTVIKEN, you ignorant Turnip!
Write it down 100 times!:
GRYTVIKEN................................................................
From the Great God Wiki - “ ... Grytviken (Swedish for ”The Pot Cove”) is the principal settlement in the British territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. It was so named by a 1902 Swedish surveyor who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site .....“
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please note - ” British territory ” ....... well, some things are worth repeating :-)
The great Wiki is rarely wrong.....
Nov 26th, 2010 - 02:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty_of_South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands
:-)
Nov 26th, 2010 - 04:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your claim is based on the activities of a whaling company which started operations 130 years after Britain claimed the island and subsequently applied for British licences ...
.... should cause a laugh at an ICJ hearing :-)))
Redhoyt, And they later applied for british citizenship in 1910, six years after arriving there.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a joke.
”The Compañía Argentina de Pesca (CAP), an Argentine-registered whaling company run by Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen, was the first company to set up operations on South Georgia in 1904. This company founded the settlement of Grytviken and its employees (including Larsen himself) became the first permanent residents of the island. In 1905, the Argentine government authorised a weather station on the island.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 1906, the CAP signed a lease with the Falkland Islands government, and following the 1908 annexation the company started to use British whaling licences and leases for land at Grytviken and Jason Harbour. Also in 1908, the CAP started looking to the South Sandwich Islands for the expansion of their business. Larsen adopted British citizenship in 1910.
Look at that. A Norwegian sets up a company, gets a lease with the legal government, uses British whale licences and leases. And gets British citizenship. Massive basis for an Argentine claim then, NOT!
4) What? Am I not allowed typos any more?
Nov 26th, 2010 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really sure that you want to go there?
I've worked it out, they're changing the emergency rations in the storage hut on Thule (hope the spelling doesn't offend anyone). Presumably they go off eventually, and they've probably been there for the better part of 28 years.
Don't let that twat Think bother you, shouting at people for making spelling mistakes, trying and failing to be sarcastic/funny and other such futile stuff is what he's best at.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0trouble is he spends all day [thinking] and all evening [I think]
Nov 26th, 2010 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0writing blogs from wikiwiki, thinking about It odd' dont you think ?
I'm not really bothered WestisBest, more a case of what root vegetable to shout at him the next typo he lets slip. What do you reckon?
Nov 26th, 2010 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amorphophallus glabra (aka Yellow lily yam)?
About (5)......................
Nov 27th, 2010 - 05:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Write it down 100 times”
Good British humor wasted on Turnips:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
British humor along with our armed forces,best in the world
Nov 27th, 2010 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv8Bof-kzpo
@15
Nov 27th, 2010 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good British humour? I think not think.
Have you not seen the angels over the islands , union jack on their wings,
Nov 27th, 2010 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you just cant win, give it up, the British are here to stay lolol
The HMS Scott, is the vessel replaceing the Endurance?
Nov 28th, 2010 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0HMS Scott
Nov 28th, 2010 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has a nice ring to It , dont you think
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