MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Foreign Office flies the British Antarctic Territory flag to mark mid-winter day
The 21st June was Mid-Winter’s Day in The British Antarctic Territory and to mark the occasion, Commissioner Dr Peter Hayes has written to UK Base (Rothera, Halley, King Edward Point, Bird Island) Commanders and staff to thank them for their ongoing hard work within the Territory. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI think you'll find that this is Queen Elizabeth land and has been since 2012.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good report though.
Won't this offend Argentina in some way.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0After all the scientific bases and the many missions of exploration we have undertook in the South Atlantic are so offensive.
I mean celebrating the illegal invasion of a peaceful people as Argentina does every year that is REALLY offensive.
“Won't this offend Argentina in some way.” Fingers crossed.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 I think you'll find that Queen Elizabeth Land (169,000 square miles) is only a small part of the British Antarctic Territory (660,000 square miles). Although unofficially called Edith Ronne Land, it was not previously officially named. And, naturally, being called Queen Elizabeth Land, it is unquestionably British. However, the argie reaction was rejected. How could naming part of one's own territory be either a “provocation” or a “systematic attack”. On the other hand, if we were to rename Buenos Aires (Fair Winds) as Stinking Fartville...........!
Jun 24th, 2014 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its British,
Jun 24th, 2014 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0that's all CFK needs to learn.
@4 Conquerer
Jun 24th, 2014 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0But Queen Elizabeth land upsets the Argies so much! ;D
Especially as it is internationally recognised and their 'Argentine Sea' is recognised by NO ONE outside of Argentina.
Its our territory, wd discovered it and we nurture it. If that upsets the invaders of the land now called Argentina so what, they are mostly a bunch of squatters. Think will confirm it, from the land he and his sock puppets now squat in - Scotland!
Jun 24th, 2014 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't worry argentina will send its mighty icebreaker to liberate the lands.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0A if it ever gets fixed
b they find fuel and a crew
And across the road the Argentinian Embassy proudly flew a white flag in rememberance of 1982.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8
Jun 24th, 2014 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The fate of the Irizar Icebreaker doesn't matter anyway. We will be able to get argies assistance if needed in the name of humanity.
We will be able to take advantage of their country and bases if needed not matter that we have dynamited one of theirs....
Nah it offends absolutely no one in Argentina since absolutely no one recognizes the existence of this territory, and furthermore YOU signed a treaty in the 1950s to renounce to you claims in the Antarctic which means even if anyone recognized this territory, you would be violating the treaty by formally exercising the claim.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was a foolish decision since when the treaty expires in 2049 all claims must be resubmitted and there is no retroactiveness.
By then Britain will be much weaker than today and will probably be forced out by superpower Brazil, power Mexico, and by the mighty Pacific Alliance, all those countries will come to the aid of destitute ArHaitina, which will then be h poorest country on Earth, and give her a slice of the continent.
Last time you talked like that you got your asses handed back to you on a plate.
Jun 24th, 2014 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Big mouth, short memory!
@11
Jun 24th, 2014 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That' s a nice dream you have going on there, but the projections on the UK economy are far from what you desire. You seem to forget that we have been at this game for rather a long time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/10808116/Roger-Bootle-Britain-could-become-the-worlds-fourth-largest-economy-within-decades.html
UK will have developed evermore sophisticated weaponry by the time the treaty expires. Can't see any Country in South America being in a position to catch up.
Jun 25th, 2014 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nostrils says:
Jun 25th, 2014 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0“no one recognizes the existence of this territory”
I say:
Australian, New Zealand, Norway and France recognise this territory. This territorial claim predates Chile’s by 32 years and Argentina’s by 34 years.
First in, best dressed.
Nostrils says:
“YOU signed a treaty in the 1950s to renounce to you claims in the Antarctic which means even if anyone recognized this territory, you would be violating the treaty by formally exercising the claim.”
Article IV of the The Antarctic Treaty says:
1. Nothing contained in the present Treaty shall be interpreted as:
(a) a renunciation by any Contracting Party of previously asserted rights of or claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica;
(b) a renunciation or diminution by any Contracting Party of any basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica which it may have whether as a result of its activities or those of its nationals in Antarctica, or otherwise;
(c) prejudicing the position of any Contracting Party as regards its recognition or nonrecognition of any other State's right of or claim or basis of claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica.
2. No acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica. No new claim, or enlargement of an existing claim, to territorial sovereignty shall be asserted while the present Treaty is in force.
Nostrils says:
“It was a foolish decision since when the treaty expires in 2049 all claims must be resubmitted and there is no retroactiveness.”
False, see Article IV of the The Antarctic Treaty.
Nostrils says:
“…destitute Argentina, which will then be the poorest country on Earth…”
Nostril's own words.
Beautiful Flag.
Jun 25th, 2014 - 06:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0beautiful building,
Jun 25th, 2014 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and both NOT argentine..lol
See
the RAF’s menacing looking Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle
is only the start of things to come.
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