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“We Are Falklands” Photo Competition
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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Disclaimer & comment rulesA 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
Mar 01st, 2014 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0other nations.
www.flickr.com/photos/gustavoalmada/3285195294/in/photostream/
Mar 01st, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and we have also others bichitos
www.flickr.com/photos/gustavoalmada/3286278498/in/photostream/
and the better landscape (paisaje)
@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#2
Mar 01st, 2014 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And you also have these....nothing like this in the Falklands.
http://www.jdanielhess.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1007
Geeeeeee.......
Mar 01st, 2014 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Looks like Monty96 forgot to close the Hen-house's door....
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 0I leave here some photos that are a win win for the competition (of Patagonia chilean and arg)
Mar 01st, 2014 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.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
The photo competition in the Falklands is to get a picture of 1 good looking girl.
Mar 01st, 2014 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Impossible in and island of geriatrics and seagull shit!
(8) Klingon
Mar 01st, 2014 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can assure you that there is more than a couple of pretty Milh's in them windblown Islands...
@9 Sheep don't count.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0@10
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 04:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0- Well...
- That narrows the field..
- But still there is one or two...
The Argentine trolls really are getting pretty desperate here!
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Pity about argieland. One way or another, they all screw each other.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Our country maybe a total cluster f%%%, but at least we have good looking girls.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Always got to see the bright side on everything! :)
#7/8
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stand 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.
(15) Clyde15
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your very reasonable and logical “Larger & Greater” argument leaves us with an unanswered question...:
Why are their sheep so much prettier than ours... ?
;-)))
Still smarting from the Cohen piece the Malvinistas do two predictable things:
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 01. Attack Cohen rather than the substance of his article
2. Take a cheap swipe at the Falkland Islanders
Chuckle chuckle
#16
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have never looked at sheep in this way. Maybe you should visit the cities more often !
yes, the falklands are their innumerable attractions to be photographed:
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0penguins + sheep.
wonderful indeed.
#19
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have 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.
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 0And over here we have the newly built tourist toilet.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 020
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol
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.
(22) Vestige
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You mean..... these?
http://www.urinal.net/stanley_racecourse/
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Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0definetely more attractive species than the british
If you say so but then again I guess you have to have something going for you. LOL
TWIMC
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would like to enter this recent picture in the Wildlife; Heritage; Island Life & People category....
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images4/seaelephant.jpg
Whatever it is, too bad; you can't enter you deadbeat.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Krysteen says otherwise....
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just 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 024 - whoa ...an empty horse track too, forget Vegas.
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 02:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0And while we're on the topic of toilets, here is what members of the Haig peace mission discovered in 1982:
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0“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
@22
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Remind 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.
28 Think
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't say we wouldn't let you enter. I said you can't.
#22
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do 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
31 - the famous Jim Rentschler !! ... nooooooo !!!
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 034
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not 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.
@35
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If 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?
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'Certainly there must have being some wood on the islands to enable the settlement of them two centuries ago.'
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CD,
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.
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Mar 03rd, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What 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??
@38
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Metaphors 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.
CD
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They 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
#40
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 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
#8 Interesting then that according to the 2012 census only 18% of the population is over 60.
Mar 04th, 2014 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still, for an archipelago of “geriatrics and seagull shit” Argentina seems very keen to get its grubby hands on them.
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Mar 04th, 2014 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0It 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
ok, listen up you peasants camping on the Malvina's!
Mar 04th, 2014 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here'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. :)
46 Klingon
Mar 04th, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0So 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.:)
#45
Mar 04th, 2014 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0People 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.
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 049 Captain Silver
Mar 04th, 2014 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I 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!
CabezaDura2
Mar 05th, 2014 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some 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.
@51
Mar 05th, 2014 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's a brilliant idea. IKEA should be paying the RN royalties.
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Mar 05th, 2014 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0It 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
@4 Clyde15,
Mar 05th, 2014 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0And thats what Stanley would look like if the RGs ever got their thieving hands on the lslands.
53 CabezaDura2
Mar 05th, 2014 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure, 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?
”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....”
Mar 06th, 2014 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://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.
14 Klingon
Mar 06th, 2014 - 05:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“...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
CabezaDura2
Mar 06th, 2014 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All 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.
rupertbrooks0
Mar 07th, 2014 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0“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
CabezaDura2
Mar 07th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes 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.
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.
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