With the purpose of resuming cultural links and ratifying the growing trade and communications relations with Magallanes Region in Chile, Falklands/Malvinas Islands governor Howard Pearce visited last week Punta Arenas, reports the local daily La Prensa Austral in this Monday's edition.
The main offices of the Chilean Antarctic Institute in Punta Arenas will be hosting beginning this Thursday a show of original photographs taken by Australian artist Frank Hurley during the Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic odyssey between 1914 and 1916.
A MAJOR international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth's most extreme environments - Antarctica - is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Answering a question from Member of Parliament Lyndsay Hoyle, United Kingdom Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said that the UK Government is committed to developing an effective relationship with the new Spanish Government on all Defence matters, including those relating to Gibraltar.
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South Georgia transhipment order irritates fishing company; AWG: Memorial was not vandalised; Film to help avoid seabird mortality; Lady Slipper declared endemic; School lessons with a Chinese flavour.
The United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association is an important forum in which issues of interest and concern to the United Kingdom Overseas Territories can be discussed, says Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell MP, who today will launch the inaugural United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) newsletter, at the CPA Room in Westminster Hall.
Australian authorities have fitted an Antarctic research ship with machine guns in a bid to increase efforts to deter Patagonian toothfish poachers in the Southern Ocean.
Let's forget fantasy and live in the real world, suggests a prominent member of the Falkland Islands community in an open letter to Argentine Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa following a further authorization by the Argentine government for an Argentine airline to fly to the Islands.
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Princess Anne arrives in Gibraltar; Spain lodges formal complaint; Cruise issue: UK seeks permanent solution; Spain continues military blockade; Financial journalists invited to the Rock.
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Ten years of midwinter madness; European funding bid progresses: agreement signed; New oil exploration company for Falklands drilling; More problems forWorld Discoverer; Councillors meet Bielsa; Murder on St Helena.