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HMS Protector surveying previously unchartered waters off Sandwich Islands
Previously uncharted areas of the Southern Ocean have been surveyed by personnel on board Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector. Using its multi-beam echo sounder the ship gathered data off the Sandwich Islands along areas of the Douglas Straits between South Thule and Cook Island for the UK Hydrographic Office to fill in missing data in the Admiralty Charts. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesRemember the days when Argentina tried to hide a base on Thule ?? Didn't the Royal Navy blow it up ??
Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0The world's most important charts stem from British surveying; current and historically.
Jan 18th, 2014 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For it matters not where the royal navy goes,
Jan 18th, 2014 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it will always be respected , admired , envied , and feared,
congratulation guys, another great job..
Lord Ton does that mean we'll be cleaning up more rg govt mess? Good work by the Royal Navy again hope you guys can figure out how to clean up without to much disruption to the local wildlife it does look a bit untidy.
Jan 18th, 2014 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems surprising to me that in this day and age, with distant planets being charted millions and millions of miles away from earth, that there are still swaths of uncharted ocean still in need of mapping....
Jan 18th, 2014 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5 HMS Protector has advanced equipment. Consider this as similar to looking at distant planets with a pair of binoculars or using the Hubble telescope.
Jan 19th, 2014 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Jan 20th, 2014 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I remember quite well. There was an Argentine scientific base in the island that was attacked, the scientists evicted and the facilities dinamited by the RN.
Dinamiting a scientific base is clearly a good way of preserving the environment......and a good way of promoting “cooperation” for common interests in the zone...
“ a good way of promoting “cooperation” for common interests in the zone...”
Jan 20th, 2014 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So invading and building secret bases on someone elses land does promote cooperation?
Sometimes I wonder if the RG posters actually read what they are told to post, as clearly even a stupid person cannot agree with the logic here.
Can you imagine the strain on CFK's brain if the UK built a scientific base in TDF area or near BA?
7. If someone built something on my property without my permission I'd kick them out and burn it down too.
Jan 20th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They're lucky they didn't blow it up with them in it.
Rgs so arrogant it makes them stupid.
or maybe its the reverse?
@8
Jan 20th, 2014 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“invading and building secret bases on someone elses land does promote cooperation?”. The Thule Argentine Base was not secret at all. Was a scientific base well known by both, British and Argentine Governments. In fact it was no so secret since the RN went there with it as a target.
“if the UK built a scientific base in TDF area or near BA?” It was not built near London, Bath, Edinburg, etc. The Base was built several year before the War, in an isolated island that belongs to an area officially “under dispute”.
TG I hate CFK and I'm well known in this site for my position against any Peronist Government.
But don't worry, I also sometimes wonder if some UK posters actually read what they are told to post, as clearly even a stupid person cannot agree with their logic. (please read usual Conqueror comments).
If I put a spurious claim to my neighbours house it would be “under dispute”, doesn't mean I can move into his attic.
Jan 20th, 2014 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0pgerman
Jan 20th, 2014 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Re Thule suggest some reading on Operation Sabarin is in order
@7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbeta_Uruguay
Jan 20th, 2014 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you read the words “Argentine military outpost”? Now, before you get worked up and post acres of words, let's add a few caveats. Argies are liars. Argies don't even understand what “truth” is. 99% of argies ignore “truth and honesty” from the day they are born until the day they die. That means that you are a liar. You may not even know that you're a liar, but you are. You might want to consider that arshitland had no business placing any sort of base on British territory. The British government tried to resolve your criminal actions through diplomacy. What it should have done was to bomb the place. It should have created a 100 metre diameter bomb crater 20 metres deep. But do try to understand. These days, British nuclear-propelled submarines carry Tomahawk Land Attack cruise missiles. Any illicit or illegal argie installations will be annihilated. Got it?
@10 Occasionally you make sense. I do emphasise “occasionally”. Now let's examine your twisted brain. Did the argie “government” request permission from the British government to construct a base on British territory? Could you post the exchange of letters please? It took Britain a month to discover the base. How come it didn't know 6 months in advance? Being accustomed to foreign bases on UK soil, we can note how, for example, the USA has requested bases on British soil. Did argarseland follow established international protocols or procedures? You have the evidence? Incidentally, wanker, nobody tells me what to post. In order to retain “political correctness”, can I impress upon you that I'd like to see your empty skull separated from your disgusting “functions”. Given your attitude, I'd dearly like to travel to somewhere “suitable” (not argieland as I couldn't stand the stench) in order to drive sharpened implements down through your throat and up your anal passage. A spit would be good. You might think that's “over the top”. Prepare to die, slug.
All Latin America knows about the USA bases.. there was one in Chagos I think. Poor people, they are the ones who need the UN protection, not the ones that occupy islands not belonging to them by force
Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#14
Jan 22nd, 2014 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0And what islands would they be ? The ones that the Argentine tried to take by force ?
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