Falkland Islands

Friday, January 17th 2014 - 06:44 UTC
HMS Portland with a female commander leaves for Atlantic patrol

Type 23 frigate HMS Portland left on Monday from Davenport naval base for the Atlantic to provide on-going protection and reassurance to British interests in the region, which includes the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.
Thursday, January 16th 2014 - 09:28 UTC
Malvinas war veteran plans to visit Falklands cemeteries with a message from Francis

Pope Francis blessed crucifixes and rosaries which will be taken to the Argentine and British cemeteries in the Falkland Islands by an Argentine war veteran. The Pope during the blessings called for peace “among the peoples” of the world.
Thursday, January 16th 2014 - 08:37 UTC
Falklands Daily Telegraph poll: majority of votes came from Argentina

The Daily Telegraph stated on Wednesday that two thirds of the votes in the Falklands/Malvinas poll came from Argentina. The British newspaper argued that the Argentine vote-flow followed “a social media campaign”.
Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 18:34 UTC
Falklands fisheries will come under attack from Argentina so as to 'strangle the Islands'' economy

Argentina is preparing a battery of instruments to attack the Falklands fisheries and involved fishing companies with the purpose of 'strangling the economy' of the Islands thus forcing the UK to sit and dialogue on South Atlantic Islands sovereignty, according to a piece by La Nacion columnist Martín Dinatale.
Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 13:12 UTC
South Georgia grey-headed albatross added to the 'endangered species' list

Encouraging and bad news for albatrosses: while the black-browed has been down-listed from 'near threatened' the grey-headed albatross is in rapid decline and considered “endangered” mainly because of fishing activities, reports the latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.
Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:23 UTC
Prison sentences for those who drill for oil in Malvinas waters, warns Argentina

”Argentina will defend its claim” over the Malvinas Islands and companies drilling for oil off the coast of the contested resource-rich archipelago “will not only face administrative consequences but also prison sentences” warned Daniel Filmus, head of Argentina's recently created Malvinas Islands Secretariat, in an interview with The Guardian.
Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:42 UTC
Falklands' Scot Guards veterans donate a priceless crafted whiskey bottle

Two 1982 Falkland Islands conflict veteran Scots Guards and the brother of the last man to be killed in action just 30 minutes before the surrender of the Argentine invaders on June 14 visited the Islands last week and made valuable donations to the Museum and the Cubs and Scout groups.
Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:30 UTC
Busy November in South Georgia with 11 cruises, yachts and HMS Protector

November was a busy month for cruise vessels: eleven cruise ships visited South Georgia between the 9th and 29th, according to the South Georgia Newsletter. One cruise ship, Ortelius, reached the rarely visited South Sandwich Islands and was able to put scientist Tom Hart ashore on Saunders Island where he took soil samples and set up two camera-traps to monitor the penguin colonies.
Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:17 UTC
South Georgia will issue two-year licenses for toothfish and icefish

The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands has announced it will issue two-year fishing licenses to companies who successfully apply to fish for toothfish and icefish in the SGSSI Maritime Zone, reports the South Georgia Newsletter latest edition.
Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:46 UTC
Falklands oil industry will have its 'Made in USA' dock facility in Stanley harbor

The Falkland Islands budding oil and gas industry advanced a further step this week when the Falklands' Planning and Building Committee gave planning permission to a temporary dock facility (TDF) in Stanley harbor that will provide logistics support to exploration drilling.