Falkland Islands

• Thursday, July 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Storm” over HMS Tireless in Gibraltar.

  A diplomatic storm seems to be brewing between Spain and the United Kingdom following Madrid's reaction to the coming visit to Gibraltar of a British nuclear powered submarine.

• Thursday, July 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Madrid “examining” Britain's “unfriendly acts”.

  The Spanish government “for the moment” anticipated no reprisals for the latest visit to Gibraltar of the British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless. However it will examine the effects London's “unfriendly acts” may have on bilateral relations, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos insisted this Thursday in Madrid.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Redressing the balance of history.

  The Belgrano had barely been sunk when the chorus of criticism began that the downing of the Argentine warship by British forces was unjustified. Surprisingly, the man who might have most cause to echo those cries does not.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  FI Governor in Magallanes promotes closer links.

  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.

• Monday, July 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Frank Hurley pictures in Punta Arenas.

  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.

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Design contest for Antarctic station.

  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).

• Sunday, July 4th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  UK seeks effective Defence relationship with Spain.

  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”.

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  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.

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Bill Rammell MP launches UK Overseas Territories inaugural newsletter.

  “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.

• Thursday, July 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia arms vessel to combat toothfish poaching.

  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.