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Falkland Islands: 64,000 visitors this year predicts Tourist Board

Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:25 UTC
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VISITOR arrivals in 2011 including inbound overnight tourists, cruise passengers and domestic tourists are expected to total almost 64,000, spending £6.85 million, according to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board forecast for the first quarter of 2011. Read full article

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  • briton

    Little acorns

    Jul 08th, 2011 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    I am really going to try to include a week on my next itinery. : ) Advice warmly welcomed.

    Jul 08th, 2011 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    2 ElaineB, You can stay at Malvina s Hotel, visit the mine fields that your British brothers don't want to remove. Also you can visit the beaches where hundreds of pilot whales wash ashore dead due to oil exploration or the beaches where millions of penguins died or starved to death thanks to the wonderful overfishing policies of the colonial British Government.
    Enjoy your visit to Malvinas and don't forget to go see The Figthing Pig Band(Malvinas U2 version) however don't get confused is not named in honor of Stephen Lux...

    Jul 08th, 2011 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Another disgruntled loser,
    for a brave nation who pushes nuns out of helicopters, and make poor little children disapear, and insults innocent woman, boy you realy delude yourselves,,
    but i suspect [Elaine ] being british and an adult, has no wish to listen to a silly child crying over spilt milk, or making silly remarks,
    may i suggest you go back to sheep stealing.
    and leave the British falklands alone .[ just a thought ]

    Jul 08th, 2011 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @4 You are right that he is child-like.

    Jul 09th, 2011 - 12:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redhoyt

    Of course, the Argentines have nothing to do with the mines, oil exploration or over fishing .... a peace loving, environmentally friendly nation lol :-)

    Jul 09th, 2011 - 12:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britishbulldog

    3 Marcos Alejandro------- Seems that you cant say anything without putting your foot in your mouth. Mysterious whale deaths off Argentina, seems that your toxic waste that you dump and the seagulls feeding of that toxic waste might be killing all these whales of the coast of Argentina www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZLsx9PHww

    And it seems that Argentina is also starving its penguins with over fishing, these penguins from Patagonia are being washed ashore in Brazil starving and weak.

    www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0721/Penguin-deaths-on-Brazil-s-beaches-caused-by-unusual-currents

    One day Marcos you will learn to keep your sarcastic thoughts to yourself, because as you now see anything that colonial British Government can do to hurt the environment the the stupid Argentine Government can do better

    canadianrohingya.org/component/content/article/125

    Or how about these oil soaked penguins

    Efforts underway to save oil-soaked penguins in Argentina

    More than 140 petroleum-covered penguins, including several which succumbed after being poisoned by the oil, have been found in southern Argentina, officials said Wednesday.“We now have 130 penguins in our care and another 11 which have died,” said Silvia Montanelli, head of the region's ministry which oversees agriculture and gaming.She said the birds were part of a yearly migration of thousands of nesting penguins which in Argentina's Patagonia region after traveling thousands of miles from each year from southern Brazil.

    Or these ones.

    http://sinais2012.blogspot.com/2011/07/dead-penguins-washing-ashore-with.html

    Jul 09th, 2011 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    7 Britishbulldog, 11 penguins died in the mainland??

    What about 5 million of them in a small group of Argentineans islands occupied by Britain?

    http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=246718

    Jul 09th, 2011 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Y Draig Goch

    What islands occupied by Brits are Argentinean? nothing on my map or via the UN says Britain occupies any of your islands...or have we invaded Ilas De Le Estados??

    Jul 09th, 2011 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Ilas? where's that? Must be a town near the sheep sh.... town of Cardiff.

    Jul 10th, 2011 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    At least the bitter bile is only coming from the mouth of young Marcos;
    his other posting-buddies probably have less poison in their tongues;
    maybe less hurt in their hearts - perhaps Marcos lost a relative in the Conflict.
    Let's try to give him some peace, and allow the bitter soul to live a happier life within him.

    Jul 10th, 2011 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    mmmm rest in peace Marcos, mmm

    Jul 10th, 2011 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    GeoffWard2, Hahaha, don't worry I am fine and I like Brits...but I don't like uninvited guest in my backyard.

    Jul 10th, 2011 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    In 1816, the United Provinces of the Rio Plata declared their independence from Spain. Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay then went their separate ways.
    The bits that remained became Argentina - a federal state was formed in 1853-1861, known today as the Republic of Argentina.

    In 1833, The Falkland Islands also assumed its present identity.

    Just when did the Southern Cone and its constituent countries become 'your backyard', Marcos?

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Bom dia Geo
    In 1833, The Malvinas Islands were invaded by the same European empire that invaded land all over the world.

    This 1800's cartoon is a perfect example( may need copy and paste)

    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_imperialism_octopus.jpg

    It is time that this “creature”returns back to Europe, we live in the 21 st century now.

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    Yes, Marcos, but we can't turn the clock back, can we?
    97% of Argentineans would need to return to Europe etc also,
    and it's my guess you would have to leave home also!

    Just where is *your* backyard:
    in the 21st C
    in the 20th C
    in the 19th C
    in the 18th C?

    Four little questions that will reveal so much about your family's place in the great people movements of the last century or two.
    No value-judgements involved; just self-awareness.

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rhaurie-Craughwell

    In 1580, Rio Plata was invaded by the same European empire that invaded land all over the world.....

    eeerm umm I'm confused Morecrap, who needs to go back to Europe?!?

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    16 GeoffWard2, None of those Europeans claim any part of Argentina for their country of origin, they become part of Argentina. I can't say the same for a few hundreds British squatters in Malvinas Argentinas.

    17 Adam, I know you are confused, you were born in Comodoro Rivadavia.

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britishbulldog

    Idiot boy Morcrap you lot are the squatters, give your land you call Argentina back to the indigenous people that you took it from killing most of them as you did it.

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rhaurie-Craughwell

    snort, he is an idiot boy :) He thinks I'm Adam Cockwell, he couldn't be any further from the truth......well 9,000 miles North to be precise....

    Tell you what Morecrap why don't you e-mail him at workboat services....please please oh please...its going to be hilarious.....

    I can predict the conversation now :)

    Morecrap to Adam Cockwell:

    DIABLO YOU ARE SQUATTER BREEEETISH PIG DOG ADAM COCKWELL MERCOPRESS RHAURIE_SE_CRAUGHWELL, BOTTOMS MEN, I LIKE MEN LOOOK I POST PICTURE OF YOUR BOTTOM! YOU THREEE STOOGES

    Adam Cockwell to Morecrap:

    ?!?!?!?!? Have you escaped from the local lunatic asylum? You sound like one disturbed little boy.....

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Two points of interest

    1, It is time that this “creature “returns back to Europe, we live in the 21 st century now
    If we did go back to empire, then Argentina would probably not exist now,
    [as we beat the spannish]

    2, The Malvinas Islands were invaded by the same European empire that invaded land all over the world
    [][ the Malvinas does not exist, that’s why Argentina is so confused today,
    Trying to claim something that she does not own or ever owned,
    [the same European empire]]
    Amazing how you lot forget to mention the Spanish or French or even the Portuguese
    Empires, who between them caused more damage and destruction and deaths than the British ever did in south America,
    Or once again like most uneducated brainwashed servants, it’s just purely
    Jealousy and anti-British, and very very envious

    Just a thought
    ,,

    Jul 11th, 2011 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    continue thinking bruton
    such nonsense thoughts every night doesnt make you have nightmares??
    thanks God we were colonized by spain and we could send them home as it corresponds when visits arent welcome and lasting more than what one could wish..
    poor brutonnnnnn
    que sueñes con los angelitos si podés

    Jul 12th, 2011 - 01:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    such nonsense from the defeated is enough for any victor
    keep up complaints we love em lol

    Jul 12th, 2011 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    Seriously,
    I don't hate ANY of my fellow men & women, no matter where they come from & where they settle.

    I guess I have been lucky to have been born in the year I was born, missing conscriptions and wars; and those responsible for the deaths and mutilations of my family members are long gone and - in general terms - forgotten. In specific terms, of course, I never knew them.

    My family have occasionally been held-up/mugged/etc, but this does not engender 'hate'.

    I have spent my whole life in a multi-racial society surrounded by intelligent and not-so-intelligent peoples of so, so many belief-systems.

    I feel unthreatened and, thus, I offer no threat.

    There is no-one on this site with whom I would not and could not become friends.

    That's why I keep coming back here.

    Jul 12th, 2011 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Your words will take you to heaven
    depending on your beliefs

    there words are harmless lol.,

    Jul 12th, 2011 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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