Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Falkland Islanders “Look Forward at Forty” and will continue to develop the community and economy of the Islands

  

  As the Queen's Platinum Jubilee popular celebrations come to an end, Falkland Islanders have turned back to the 40th-anniversary commemorations of the war and the coming Liberation Day. The Chair of the 40th Anniversary Committee, Mrs. Phyl Rendell MBE made a brief statement on coming events and the future.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Commercial air link Falklands/Chile scheduled to resume 2nd July. Ticket booking begins

  

  Following the announcement made on 7 April 2022, the air link between the Falkland Islands and Chile will resume on Saturday 2 July 2022. LATAM flight schedules will be reinstated with flights stopping in Punta Arenas and Santiago, and once a month stopping in Rio Gallegos.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 07:43 UTC

  Falklands: Royal Marines repeat the famous 90km yomp from San Carlos to Stanley in an impressive time

  

  BFSAI is reporting that the Paras are not the only elite British forces currently in Mount Pleasant Complex for the Falkland Islands 40th-anniversary commemorations.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 23:40 UTC

  Falklands receives the Queen's Baton for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games

  

  The Queen's Baton for the Commonwealth Games which kicks off in Birmingham on July 28, will be making its stop in the Falkland Islands on June 6 and beginning June 7 in the City of Stanley will make a forty-kilometer relay with some forty volunteers, across the Islands.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 21:26 UTC

  When Peron offered to buy the Falklands/Malvinas in a long term deal

  

  Some seven decades ago when the crowing of the princess to become Queen Elizabeth II, Argentine president General Juan Domingo Peron sent as his representative and envoy to the ceremony his vice president, Admiral Alberto Teisaire.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Falklands' War: Royal Marines cadre clear Top Malo House of Argentine special forces

  

  Forty years ago, British troops were advancing towards Port Stanley in the Falklands – most of them on foot. Standing in the way of the advance was Top Malo House, a property suspected of containing Argentine special forces that sat in a compromising high ground position.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  At Falklands Thursday sunset, Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon will be lit

  

  Falkland Islands Chief Fire Officer announced spectators are invited and are welcome to the lighting of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon which will take place at Moody Brook on the site of the old Hovercraft slipway and hangar at 16:51 on June 2nd.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Crown coin commemorating the Liberation of the Falklands for every child in the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Commissioners of Currency and the 40th Anniversary Committee are delighted to announce the issue of a Crown Coin to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 20:48 UTC

  Children from the Falklands say “Thank you” in a video to veterans who liberated the islands in 1982

  

  As part of the commemoration events for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war, school children from both the Junior and Secondary schools in the Falkland Islands have created special “Thank you” messages to all the veterans involved in liberating the Falkland Islands in 1982. The school children are keen that their messages are seen by as wide an audience as possible, so that as many veterans and their families and families of those 255 lost, get to see them and know that what they did 40 years ago is still greatly appreciated and not forgotten, even by the most recent generation of young Islanders.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth

  

  As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1982 War and honored those who did not return from the South Atlantic.