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“We Are Falklands” Photo Competition

Saturday, March 1st 2014 - 02:27 UTC
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The Falkland Islands Government PR & Media Office is running a photo competition to source quality images of 'our beautiful home'. The winning photos will be printed and displayed at a central London gallery later this year to promote the stunning views, wildlife, history and community that make the Falkland Islands a truly unique place. Read full article

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  • Gordo1

    A view, or views, of the Argentine cemetery will be s good entry. Show the rest of the world, especially Argentina, how the islanders respect the fallen armed forces of
    other nations.

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    www.flickr.com/photos/gustavoalmada/3285195294/in/photostream/
    and we have also others bichitos
    www.flickr.com/photos/gustavoalmada/3286278498/in/photostream/
    and the better landscape (paisaje)

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @2 Looks like typical argie crap to me. Grey and white pictures of penguins. Penguins are BLACK and white. In the Falklands, they can be seen in wonderful scenery. Argieland - zoo pictures? Nothing in the South Atlantic is as good as the Falklands. Despite the argie landmines. Why don't you pop across and dance across the minefields? So many cowardly argies. About 40 million! And there's some slugs as well. Haven't mentioned you by name, have I “m”?

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #2
    And you also have these....nothing like this in the Falklands.

    http://www.jdanielhess.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1007

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Geeeeeee.......
    Looks like Monty96 forgot to close the Hen-house's door....

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    I am sure that someone will take a photo of the Queens Baton which I understand is in the FALKLANDS at the moment.

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    I leave here some photos that are a win win for the competition (of Patagonia chilean and arg)
    www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/17132306/Patagonia-Argentina-en-imagenes.html
    www.taringa.net/posts/turismo/17203710/10-paisajes-de-la-Patagonia-que-cuesta-creer-que-existen.html
    Show you photos

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    The photo competition in the Falklands is to get a picture of 1 good looking girl.

    Impossible in and island of geriatrics and seagull shit!

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (8) Klingon

    I can assure you that there is more than a couple of pretty Milh's in them windblown Islands...

    Mar 01st, 2014 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    @9 Sheep don't count.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    @10
    - Well...
    - That narrows the field..
    - But still there is one or two...

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 04:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    The Argentine trolls really are getting pretty desperate here!

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @12 Pity about argieland. One way or another, they all screw each other.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    Our country maybe a total cluster f%%%, but at least we have good looking girls.

    Always got to see the bright side on everything! :)

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #7/8
    Stand back and THINK for a moment....if you are capable of such a thing.
    The competition is to find a picture taken in the Falklands showing the unique landscape or way of life. So you first reaction is...lets trash this...Argentina is SO much better. Would it not be surprising if a country 228 times larger with a population 140000 greater than the Islands did not have a greater variety of scenery ?
    MALEN You refer us to pictures of Patagonia. Why do you think THIS would win a competition about the Falklands ? Explain please.

    Similarly with the picture of a good looking woman. With odds of 140000 to 1 the odds are in your favour.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (15) Clyde15

    Your very reasonable and logical “Larger & Greater” argument leaves us with an unanswered question...:

    Why are their sheep so much prettier than ours... ?

    ;-)))

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    Still smarting from the Cohen piece the Malvinistas do two predictable things:
    1. Attack Cohen rather than the substance of his article
    2. Take a cheap swipe at the Falkland Islanders

    Chuckle chuckle

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #16
    I have never looked at sheep in this way. Maybe you should visit the cities more often !

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    yes, the falklands are their innumerable attractions to be photographed:
    penguins + sheep.

    wonderful indeed.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #19
    Have you been there ? The main attraction is the lack of Argentinians.
    Penguins are infinitely more attractive than the latter species which can be recognised by their continual whining.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    When the British settled the islands, before the nation of Argentina existed they oppressed nothing but the native population of penguins and seagulls. Meanwhile I don't see too many indigenous South Americans among the Argentina power-mongers. Still, that's genocide for you.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    And over here we have the newly built tourist toilet.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    20
    lol
    agree that penguins can be cute.

    now, you need to go to buenos aires, barcelona, rome, paris, amsterdam etc to understand what attractive people means.

    definetely more attractive species than the british.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (22) Vestige
    You mean..... these?
    http://www.urinal.net/stanley_racecourse/

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    23
    definetely more attractive species than the british

    If you say so but then again I guess you have to have something going for you. LOL

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    TWIMC

    I would like to enter this recent picture in the Wildlife; Heritage; Island Life & People category....

    http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images4/seaelephant.jpg

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    Whatever it is, too bad; you can't enter you deadbeat.

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Krysteen says otherwise....

    Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Just like eastern Patagonia it has a problem there is no trees growing on the isles...Pretty sad and hard to live in were there is no trees :(

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 01:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    24 - whoa ...an empty horse track too, forget Vegas.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 02:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    And while we're on the topic of toilets, here is what members of the Haig peace mission discovered in 1982:

    “In the meantime, Gompert, Dean Fischer, Scott Gudgeon, and I have found the perfect symbol for this country: the putrid toilet on the ground floor of the Casa Rosada. Yeah, a number of us have to cop micturitions, and though reluctant to help us, the security creeps inside the Casa - heavily into leather, these guys, I love their polished boots, shoulder straps, and riding crops - lead us around a pretty palm-shaded interior courtyard, off the edges of which there is a corner with two urinals. Some corner! - it is inundated with pipi, huge puddles of it thoroughly soaking the pile of shredded newspaper which supposedly helps one service the nearby squatty-roo. Doesn't this sum up the regime distinctive flavor? - a façade of elegance and sophistication on the outside, behind which the cloacal reality lies in all its stinky-poo squalor. On the way out we pass a contingent of elaborately dressed Presidential guards - polished boots, gleaming sabers, towering helmets in toy-soldier perfection - which adds to the forcefulness of the symbol: here at the pinnacle of Argentine power just imagine the conditions in which these poor guys have to take a crap. …”

    Diary of Haig aide Jim Rentschler , http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/114344

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @22
    Remind me again, who was it that invaded THE FALKLANDS and decided to use the ISLANDERS living rooms to have a DUMP? Your boys did not know what a toilet was. I am pretty sure if the OCCUPIERS ( ARGIES ) had asked to use the toilets in every house, the answer would have been yes. I think it would have been better to say yes than have the Argies crapping on your living room floor. Food for thought.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    28 Think

    I didn't say we wouldn't let you enter. I said you can't.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #22
    Do you actually HAVE toilets in Argentina or is the whole place actually one giant toilet ? Judging by the behaviour of your invading forces in 1982, the answer must be in the negative. It would appear that the concept of a separate room to be used for the elimination of human waste is unknown in your country.

    #26
    I knew you were old but I didn't think you were 0ver 100 years old as you must have been to take that picture. Any way you cannot enter it for consideration as it does not reflect the current position on wildlife preservation on the Falklands.

    #29
    It really depends on what you are used to. The inhabitants of the Orkneys and Shetlands live with very few trees but seem to be a very happy and well balanced people

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    31 - the famous Jim Rentschler !! ... nooooooo !!!

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    34

    Not if you are going to present it as a natural tourist destination
    Apparently there is some trees growing limitedly

    http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/1/59.abstract

    I think that some of those native species are enadanguered in Tierra del Fuego, they should try planting on the northern side of the slops to cover them from the antartic southern winds ??

    Certainly there must have being some wood on the islands to enable the settlement of them two centuries ago.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @35

    If you've got a better review of the lavatories in the Casa Rosada by a more prominent celebrity, please feel free to post it. Trip Advisor, maybe?

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    I do indeed have one, but mines probably not as relevant in 2014 as your highly relevant and thoroughly interesting sophisticated 1980's thatcherite politician's opinion on urinals and poo poo.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • dab14763

    'Certainly there must have being some wood on the islands to enable the settlement of them two centuries ago.'

    CD,

    Any wood found when man first landed would have been driftwood as there were no trees. Since the settlers knew there were no trees, they took the wood they needed with them when they settled.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    39

    What about all the fencing of the estancias and farms ??? Gates, corrals, sheep workshorps?? There must have being something....

    Ps; do you know if you can start fires with peat??

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @38

    Metaphors really are a hoot, aren't they? I expect it's all different now under Cristina, they've probably got a bottle of Harpic in there, and some plastic flowers, maybe.

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • dab14763

    CD

    They used stone and turf for building, as well as driftwood

    http://www.falklands-museum.com/index.php/national-trust/corrals

    Peat has been the Falklands' main source of fuel for most of its history.

    http://www.falklands-museum.com/index.php/national-trust/corrals

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #40
    In the Hebridean islands of Scotland, peat is still used as a fuel as it has been for centuries.
    I cannot see why tree planting in the Falklands could not be successful.
    The climate of the west of Scotland is more severe than that of the Falklands and Chilean plants and trees thrive here. There are specimens of the Chilean pine .. (auraucaria araucana ) over 30 metres in height that were planted in the mid 19th century still growing quite happily

    http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/garden-features/glasshouse-borders/chilean-area

    Mar 03rd, 2014 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Evil Colonialist Pirate

    #8 Interesting then that according to the 2012 census only 18% of the population is over 60.
    Still, for an archipelago of “geriatrics and seagull shit” Argentina seems very keen to get its grubby hands on them.

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    43

    It depends on the depth and temperature of the soil, not just the winds...cold temperature climates prevent biological degradation of the organic matter into the soil. Its just thousands of years of organic matter accumulation that makes the land up in polar lands. Its not earth like temperate climates, there is not many living beings in them... Maybe the part in Scotland you refer too its different to eastern Patagonia or the islands. Araucana Araucanas can even grow in some plazas here

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    ok, listen up you peasants camping on the Malvina's!

    Here's a short summary of the comments.
    1./ There is nothing to photograph on the Malvinas.
    2./ There is nothing worth photographing, That includes the local girls “Sea elephants”.

    Just count yourselves lucky you are not being invaded again and is only some friendly rivalry on a forum. :)

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    46 Klingon

    So what is it about the islands that appeals to Malvinistas then?

    Just count yourselves lucky your government isn't attempting to invade us again except for some friendly rivalry on a forum.:)

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #45
    People who have been to the western isles of Scotland remark on the similarity of the landscapes to the Falklands. Very little deep soils as the last ice age swept it clean. It is mainly peat BUT they have managed to plant trees - and commercial forests - which have successfully grown.
    Again, it is always dangerous to fiddle with the botany of an area by growing non-native species and changing the landscape. It usually ends in disaster.

    #46
    Just count yourselves lucky you are not being invaded again.

    I think that equally applies to you. This time you would get SERIOUSLY hurt.

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    Joe, I think what appealed to the Argies was the plethora a decent toilets in the Islands! They just can't wait to get back there and relieve themselves in comfort!

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    49 Captain Silver

    I like hedges so that's a good idea. Thanks. Not good with my plant names, that's Mrs Bloggs. I just provide the labour and complain about plans that look labour intensive to maintain. LOL!

    Mar 04th, 2014 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    CabezaDura2

    Some of the first settlers who moved to the islands were Chelsea pensioners (retired servicemen). They lived in wooden houses. How? The Royal navy had designed wooden houses in kit form. They could be flat packed in the hulls of ships and re-assembled upon arrival. They were convenient not only in places like the Falklands without trees but in wooded areas too. You could throw up a mini village in 2 days. No need to chop down trees, season the wood, measure up and saw etc. Sometimes they even included little picket fences so people could mark out their own front gardens.

    Mar 05th, 2014 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Heisenbergcontext

    @51

    That's a brilliant idea. IKEA should be paying the RN royalties.

    Mar 05th, 2014 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    51

    It must have being the equivalent of colonizing Mars back then... The isolation, landscape and weather of the place must have being a real obstacle for anybody attempting to colonize the islands. It must have being like serving a life sentance. Whale oil would have being another fuel employed at the time.
    Steel wire fencing didn't come round to the end of the 19th Century so the fencing would have being done with stone or timber before so?? The monopoly of the islands must have provided all that...More likely is that sheep & cows would have just being wondering around on the whole island and there was no private property appart from the monopoly. I guess

    Mar 05th, 2014 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @4 Clyde15,
    And thats what Stanley would look like if the RGs ever got their thieving hands on the lslands.

    Mar 05th, 2014 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    53 CabezaDura2

    Sure, I guess it must have been a hard life at first. Not unlike the early days in Tierra del Fuego. The very first house built in Ushuaia was by the British Anglican missionary, explorer and linguist Thomas Bridges. This was also a wooden self assembled two room house, shipped over from England to Port Stanley, then on to Ushuaia in 1869. The name Ushuaia is a Yamana word and was given to the area by British missionaries.

    Thomas Bridges was one of the very few Europeans to take the trouble to learn the indigenous language of a South American Indian people, the Yamana. He even compiled his own Yamana-English grammar and dictionary of more than 30,000 words, which is now in the British library in London.

    I wonder if his house is still there?

    Mar 05th, 2014 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    ”Thomas Bridges, was an orphan found on a bridge somewhere in England and later adopted by an Anglican missionary, the Rev. G.P. Despard. In 1856, at the age of 13, he was taken with his adoptive family to Keppel (Vigía) Island in the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands, where an agricultural mission station was being established. There he learned Yahgan, the language of the Yámana canoe people from TF, who were taken there for training. By his first trip to Tierra del Fuego, in 1863, he was able to speak with the Fuegians and explain what the Mission wanted to do. He founded the Anglican Mission at Ushuaia in 1870, establishing there permanently with his wife, Mary Ann Varder, and their small daughter Mary, in 1871....”

    http://www.estanciaharberton.com/historiaenglish.html

    So the British had links with the Fuegians from the islands where the Mission started from. I Didn't know that. So would that mean to say that the yamana fisherman would sail as far or was it the British who taked them to the islands for conversion?

    I knew the Chileans had exercised possesion taking of TF and the Beagle canal and build a fort as early as the 1840s.

    Mar 06th, 2014 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    14 Klingon

    “...but at least we have good looking girls. ...” Regardless as to whether this is true or not, a large percentage of the male population is apparently is indifferent any how.

    HELSINGIN SANOMAT. INTERNATIONAL EDITION - FOREIGN
    Falkland Islands - positive outcome of a senseless war
    Defeat to British ended era of military dictatorships in South America By Kari Huhta

    “... After the restoration of democracy, the #1 bestseller at bookstalls in Buenos Aires was Nunca Más - “Never Again”, a report on the atrocities of the dictatorship, and next to it a book called Sexo Anal that probably needs no explanation.”
    Presumably it must it must have been the #2 bestseller

    Mar 06th, 2014 - 05:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    CabezaDura2

    All early accounts of the Falklands claim it to be uninhabited. No remains or artefacts of any native peoples have ever been found. Whether the islands were ever visited by native fishermen is something we will probably never know. I think we can assume that the Fuegians were taken to Keppel Island by the British Missionarys.

    Keppel Island was named after the First Lord of the Admiralty upon discovery in 1782.

    Extraordinary how many First Sea Lords got parts of the globe named after them? Just in the South Atlantic you have Keppel, Falkland and Sandwich islands.

    The first British missionaries to visit the area were from the Patagonian Missionary Society in the 1840’s.

    Much of the early Missionary activities used Port Stanley as a forward base. I’ve been researching the life of Thomas Bridges, extraordinary life. Thanks for the link. How history moves in the strangest of ways.

    Mar 06th, 2014 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    rupertbrooks0

    “How history moves in the strangest of ways.”
    So true. Extraordinary people were exploring and colonizing Patagonia in those days
    Are you acquainted with the story of a French adventurer Orèlie-Antoine de Tounens, the King of Araucania?? Im sure you will find it interesting too. He is not very well known in Argentina and Chile

    Mar 07th, 2014 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    CabezaDura2

    Yes indeed I have, there were certainly some colourful adventurers running around the fabled remoteness of Patagonia in the early days.

    Perhaps you have heard of Conrad Martens? No? Well he’s not so famous. He was a draughtsmen and artist employed by Captain Fitzroy of HMS Beagle in 1833 to accompany himself and Charles Darwin to record their explorations. He was therefore (Probably) the first European to paint scenes from Patagonia, including this one; “HMS Beagle being hailed by native Fuegians”.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Beagle_by_Conrad_Martens.jpg

    Sure, not the greatest painting in the world but probably the first of Fuegians.

    Mar 07th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Nope, I knew the accounts of Francis Bond Head in the Pampas in early independence days, apparently Darwin had read his “Rough Notes Taken during some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes” before travelling to Argentina.

    Mar 08th, 2014 - 04:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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