Falkland Islands

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 07:16 UTC

  Taiwanese fishing boat with 49 crew missing in the South Atlantic

  

  A Taiwanese fishing boat that has gone missing in waters off southeastern Argentina could have lost power, Fisheries Agency Deputy Director-General Huang Hung-yan said this weekend, about a week after the vessel was reported missing.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 22:08 UTC

  Falklands oil drilling campaign takes off with spudding on the Zebedee prospect

  

  Premier Oil spudded its first 2015 Falklands drilling campaign well, 14/15-5, using the Eirik Raude semisubmersible drilling rig on the Zebedee prospect on 6 March. The well, on license PL004b, will test a total of seven stacked fan bodies with varying geological chances of success (GCoS) of 9-52%.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 07:52 UTC

  South Atlantic Air-bridge to the Falklands restricted to certain nationalities

  

  The South Atlantic Air-bridge linking RAF Brize Norton in the UK with the Falkland Islands will no longer fly nationals from a list of countries and although no specific reasons were given, the release underlines that the “Ministry of Defense places the greatest importance on the security of its people, facilities and operations”.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Argentine central bank chairman defends the 50-peso Malvinas bill

  

  Argentina's Central Bank Governor Alejandro Vanoli defended the new 50-peso banknote which features the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, after it was belittled by the a minister of state at the British Foreign Office.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2015 - 22:14 UTC

  Argentina/Chile celebrate Tierra del Fuego mines-free; Rossi claims UK impedes mine-clearance in Falklands

  

  Argentina and Chile defense ministers, Agustín Rossi and Jorge Burgos, attended this week a historic ceremony in which they signed a document declaring Tierra del Fuego free of anti-personal mines. During the meeting minister Rossi blamed the UK for not allowing Argentina to clear the mines in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 22:37 UTC

  Malvinas' 50-Peso bill, an Argentine stunt, says Foreign Office minister

  

  Britain derided a new Argentine banknote featuring the disputed Falkland Islands as a stunt on Tuesday and said it had no intention of discussing sovereignty over the archipelago with Buenos Aires.

• Monday, March 2nd 2015 - 07:19 UTC

  Falkland Islands included in European funds for environmental projects

  

  More than €6 million has been made available to European Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) some of which can be accessed for environmental projects within the Falkland Islands, according to a report from the Penguin News last edition.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 11:55 UTC

  Falkland Islands return as leading option for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays

  

  Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has added more options in South America with the reinstatement of a Falkland Islands and Chile itinerary and the return of Bolivia to the program. The first sold-out trip to the Falkland Islands has just returned and another, which is almost full, will run from November 5, leading in at £4,220pp.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

  Falklands historic link to Antarctica exploration unveiled in unique memorial

  

  The Falkland Islands historic link as the gateway for British Antarctic exploration was acknowledged this week with the dedication in Stanley's Dockyard Point of the southern component of a unique memorial to the 28 men and one woman of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and before that the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who have perished in the Antarctic since the establishment by the British Government of the first permanent research base there in 1944.

• Friday, February 27th 2015 - 05:29 UTC

  Falklands oil rig arrives and readies to begin six-well drilling campaign

  

  The semi-submersible oil rig oil rig Eirik Raude entered Falkland Islands waters to the north this week and has already been served by supply vessels and undergone a crew change operation. The Eirik Raude will shortly begin a six-well drilling campaign operated by Premier Oil and Noble Energy.