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Argentina commemorates 113 years in Antarctica
Argentine Antarctica Day was commemorated on Wednesday February 22 with different events recalling the day, 113 years ago when the country's flag was first flown in a met station in Laurie Island, in the south Orkneys. Since then, 1904, Argentina's presence south of 60o. has been uninterrupted, said Argentine defense minister Julio Martínez at the main celebration in the Foreign Affairs ministry. Read full article
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Feb 23rd, 2017 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse -1Yes... $28 million has been nicked....
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Shouldn't this read “Argentina commemorates 113 years in Queen Elisabeth Land”?
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse +1Elizabeth Land! All those years of squatting and the Argies still haven't got a Post Office! Never mind they can always send their letter by using the British one!
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Claims to the Antarctic by the British are about as solid as claims to the Arctic by Australopithecuses.
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Yaaajaa!
Talk about an implanted population...
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Implant? Dr Menendez implanted something in Nostril's brain for sure. I 'Think' he is probably a part of a failed Nazi experiment!
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Australopithicus...“southern ape”
Feb 23rd, 2017 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Well, well, I see that it has not become extinct but one is alive and well and is posting on Mercopress.
It seems she wants to claim everything,
Feb 24th, 2017 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but will she be able to defend this land, they are squatting on.
“Elizabeth Land” ... some pirates from the far northern hemisphere believing they are entitled to our hemisphere. Pure imperialism.
Feb 25th, 2017 - 05:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lap Dog
Feb 25th, 2017 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse +1Your hemisphere ? Explain. So Argentina claims everything south of the equator.
Delusions of grandeur again.
A country in S.America,claims just about everything in the southern seas and Antarctica.
Despite signing the Antarctic treaty forbidding military forces on the Continent Argentina establishes a permanent military base. “Duplicity is thy name”
“Spain's sovereignty claim over parts of Antarctica was, according to Chile and Argentina, internationally recognized with the Inter caetera bull of 1493 and the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. Argentina and Chile treat these treaties as legal international treaties mediated by the Catholic Church that was at that time a recognized arbiter in such matters.”
The Pope said Spain could have it so Argentina thinks that gives them sovereignty !
What a load of garbage ! The USA are also sitting down there, Are they pirates ? The Russian federation and China are interested too. Your tiny obsessive mind can only see the UK because we stuffed you over the Falklands. Tough titty...get used to it.
Britain was charting and exploring the southern oceans before your tin-pot country stole the land from it's indigenous inhabitants.
By the way, which Troll reincarnation are you. Your phrases and use of language seem to come directly from “guidance for Trolls”
Pope Francis defends indigenous peoples' rights to their ancestral lands,
Feb 25th, 2017 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Does this now mean that all you usurpers from argie land and the others, should now pack your bags and leave them to their own lands that you lot stole from them. ?
@LukeDig
Feb 25th, 2017 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Heh, I guess Ecuador can claim both the north and south poles since it is in both hemispheres.
Also, you never replied to me on the other thread. I wrote:
I didn't claim that Britain never did anything questionable. I know perfectly well that my country has done plenty of more-than-questionable things, and some a lot more recently than 200 years ago.
Thank you for the link, but that is to a whole book, in what is to me a foreign language. And I don't even know what, exactly, it is supposed to demonstrate. IIRC, you claimed Britain divided South America, and also forced Argentina and Brazil to fight the war against Paraguay. I can't find anything much in there about the Paraguayan war, so are there letters on that site showing how Britain stopped the various countries in SA uniting after independence? If so, could you tell me which ones I should look at?
Looks like he is just picking flies.
Feb 25th, 2017 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Demontree at university they teach you to look for the sources below every text. Look for the little letters below every post in the link and thou shall find the british sources
Feb 26th, 2017 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sources
Feb 26th, 2017 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the only sources you use to are tomato and brown sauces.lol
Clyde, of course that all northerners in Antarctica are nothing more than illegal squatters.
Feb 27th, 2017 - 05:56 am - Link - Report abuse -1If they want a piece of the south pole, they should give us southerners a piece of the north pole.
News just in ! There is no land at the N.Pole. It's an ice cap over the sea. The sea belongs to no one. There is a dispute over the EEZ between the countries round the area.
Feb 27th, 2017 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina's favourite term....squatters. This is exactly what Argentina is doing in the Antarctic.
Explain YOUR legal right to an uninhabited continent that was discovered and explored by Europeans before ARGENTINA existed.
I have had a good look at naps of the Antarctic continent and have yet to find any area with a Spanish OR Italian name which indicates that they had next to nothing to do with it's exploration.
Your claim is based on “we don't want you to have it because we are jealous”
Define Northeners, The Equator runs through Brazil. Are they partly Northeners, Likewise Indonesia and the Congo in Africa.
Also, you are a transplanted Northener.. part Spanish/Italian/German.
You took Argentina by force and then pretend that you sprung up from the soil in a virgin land. Immigrants flooded in by the millions and you have the cheek to call others squatters.
Agreed.
Feb 27th, 2017 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1they would claim the world if they could.
I see I have typed “naps” for maps. The lettering on my keyboard has worn off at u i o h n m,
Feb 27th, 2017 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This can lead to some peculiar spelling if I forget to check before posting.
@LukeDig
Feb 27th, 2017 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +1That wasn't what I was asking. I only had time to skim the website, but I couldn't find anywhere the book claimed Britain prevented the newly independent countries uniting. Only that it helped them become independent for its own reasons and influenced their development in order to get advantages trading etc.
The case of Uruguay being rejected in the Argentine federation because of englands orders is documented in these sources as well. Look for the “cotton between two glasses”
Feb 28th, 2017 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lowlander Clyde15...
Feb 28th, 2017 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“ I have had a good look at naps of the Antarctic continent and have yet to find any area with a Spanish OR Italian name....”
I say...:
You are obviously looking at the wrong “naps” of the Antarctic continent...
... Some Sassenach naps..., I imagine...
Try the SCAR COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA...:
https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/
I know what I'm speakin' about..., laddie
Some 100 km of Antarctic beach bear me surname...;-)
What does that prove. You erroneously call the Falklands the Malvinas...a CHUILEIN !
Feb 28th, 2017 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, Google Earth is what I looked at.
If you wish to tell me some Argentinian names in Antarctica, please do so.
I looked at the site to which you referred, It appears that I need to know the name of the place before I can see it on the map. I am not wasting my time on this. If you have something to say do so.
As to your patronising sassenach references about maps, the UK is streets ahead of third world countries such as yours in cartography.
@LukeDig
Feb 28th, 2017 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I already knew about Uruguay, I mentioned it in the other thread. What about the other countries?
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