Falkland Islands

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 17:05 UTC

  Work to fully reopen Argentina's Petrel Base in Antarctica goes on

  

  Argentine Navy's ARA Puerto Argentino sloop has sucessfully unloaded supplies and machinery this week at the Petrel Base in Antarctica, it was reported. A self-propelled pontoon built entirely at the Tandanor–CINAR shipyard was used for the reconstruction of this base, which is returning to permanent service after nearly 50 years.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Falklands' Chamber of Commerce organizes First Environmental Business Symposium

  

  The Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce has announced the first Falkland Islands Environmental Business Symposium, will be held at 12:30 on the 18th of March. The Chamber is bringing together speakers from organizations across the Falklands to share knowledge and discuss what businesses can do to reduce or offset their environmental impacts.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Patagonia January inflation 3,6%, double the Falklands' annual retail prices index

  

  Despite highly subsidized public rates, a long list of coerced consumer prices, relatively cheap fuel in the current global energy-short environment, the Consumer Price Index in Argentine Patagonia, mainly Tierra del Fuego, reached 3,6% in January, according to the latest report from the official stats office, Indec.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Last living Yagan language speaker dies aged 93; members of her ethnicity lived in the Falklands

  

  The last known living person who spoke Yagan, the language of the indigenous people who inhabited Tierra del Fuego, passed away this week in the Clinics Hospital from Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile. She was 93, and had to be transported urgently from Puerto Williams to the Magallanes Region capital.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands Government reiterates the need to respect human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation

  

  On Tuesday the Falklands government in an official release reiterated the need for human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation to be respected, particularly self-determination.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 12:15 UTC

  Britain, China and the Falkland Islands: Why the US must weigh in

  

  By Dov S. Zakheim (*)This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory, on April 2, 1982.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Latin American and Caribbean parliament call for Falklands' sovereignty talks with UK

  

  The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, (Parlatino) met this week in Panama and called on the international community to support Argentina's request for a resumption of Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks with the UK. The issue addressed was the “Malvinas Question, a Latin American cause”.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  “Everything Changed”, A Falkland Islander’s Photographic Record of Invasion, Occupation, War and Aftermath

  

  By Graham Bound – “Light falls on the faces and the eyes of men. Even from a distance of four decades, we gain a glimpse of their emotions: despair, pride, exhaustion, determination, and fear”

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Brazil supports Argentine Malvinas claim but since UK is an 'important partner', authorizes RAF landings

  

  Brazil on Tuesday defended its decision to allow British military aircraft flying to the Falkland Island to call at Brazilian airports, landings that annoyed Argentina. The complaint is not new, and Brazilian policy under different governments over the years has been one of accepting those calls.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  South Sandwich hidden magnitude-8.2 earthquake source of mysterious 2021 global tsunami

  

  By American Geophysical Union – Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface—too deep to initiate a tsunami—and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have generated a much larger earthquake.