Falkland Islands

• Thursday, December 18th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Iron Duke back in UK after Caribbean and Falklands patrolling

  

  Royal Navy warship HMS Iron Duke returned to Portsmouth on Thursday from operations in the Atlantic which included a £50 million drug bust in the Caribbean, combined patrolling around the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and navigating the iceberg-infested Antarctic Convergence Zone

• Thursday, December 18th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  UK engineers and spares in P Arenas wait for Endurance

  

  Twenty four passengers from the stranded Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Endurance arrived Thursday morning to Punta Arenas on board the Chilean navy missile fast boat “Casma”.

• Wednesday, December 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Engine room flood on Falklands ship Endurance

  

  BRITISH Royal Navy Patrol Ship HMS Endurance has suffered an engine room flood off the coast of Chile.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Redeployment of HMS Northumberland “no cause of alarm”

  

  The Commander British Forces South Atlantic, Air Commodore Gordon Moulds, was quick to respond to suggestions in the British press that the Falkland Islands would be left undefended by the decision to divert the frigate HMS Northumberland to a European Union counter- piracy mission off the coast of East Africa.

• Monday, December 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  BHP Billiton oil survey vessel on its way to Falklands

  

  The Falkland Islands are expecting the arrival in mid-January of the brand new Fugro Saltire a survey, construction support and intervention vessel, built earlier this year, which is to carry out seabed surveys for BHP Billiton.

• Friday, December 12th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Vice Chief of Defence makes Falklands visit; BA Honours degree for Nancy; Missing drugs: Spanish fisherman pleads guilty to charge of burglary.

• Tuesday, December 9th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Lucky minefield incident for landing crew in Falklands

  

  A HORRIFIED Falklands vessel owner radioed for assistance for crewmembers of a Belgium flagged yacht who inadvertently wandered into a minefield on Saturday evening.

• Sunday, December 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  S. Atlantic frigate reassigned to pirate hunting in E. Africa

  

  The Falkland Islands are to be left without the protection of a Royal Navy warship for the first time since the 1982 South Atlantic conflict, reports the Sunday edition of The Telegraph.

• Thursday, December 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands dedicates new stamp issue to five penguin species

  

  The five species of breeding penguins in the Falkland Islands will soon be winging their way through letter boxes, appearing on a new issue of postage stamps – Breeding Penguins – which were released this week by the Falkland Islands Post Office.

• Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands

  

  Next Monday 8th December 2008 the Falkland Islands commemorates the victory of the Naval engagements of 8th December 1914 on which day 6 British sailors lost their lives and a number of others died later from injuries received during the battle. 2,260 German sailors also lost their lives.