Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 10:57 UTC

  South Georgia releases new coin to commemorate Sir Ernest Shackleton

  

  The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands have released a new coin to commemorate the birth of the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Born on 15th February 1874, Sir Ernest Shackleton wanted to be an explorer from a very early age, inspired by faraway places that he had read about as a boy. At the age of 16, bored by the school curriculum, he went to work in the Merchant Navy.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  Falklands Ultra Launches Inaugural Falkland Islands Ultramarathon in April 2020

  

  The Falklands Ultra is a single-stage ultra-marathon across the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It will become an annual event and the inaugural event will be held in April 2020.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 07:21 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Day Message

  

  The Queen has used her Commonwealth Day message to praise how the family of nations inspires its member states to find ways of protecting the planet and its citizens. Millions of people are “drawn together” because of the collective values shared by the institution, the Queen says in her address to the 53 countries of the Commonwealth.

• Monday, March 11th 2019 - 18:30 UTC

  Falklands: First surveys of the Burdwood Bank completed for Marine Managed Areas Project

  

  By Ander M. de Lecea - Research scientist Drs Ander de Lecea and Marina Costa of SAERI recently completed their first surveys of the Burdwood Bank, kicking off the “Fine Scaling of the Marine Management Areas of the Falkland Islands” (MMA) project.

• Monday, March 11th 2019 - 08:31 UTC

  Next visit of Malvinas relatives to the Falklands takes off on Wednesday 

  

  Next Wednesday a group of relatives of Argentine soldiers fallen in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and  whose remains were recently identified will be travelling to the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands. Relatives will be able to mourn and pray next to the gravestones which now have the full name of their loved ones. A military ceremony will also be held to honor the Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin.

• Saturday, March 9th 2019 - 08:28 UTC

  Falklands' licensed Taiwanese jigger crew member missing

  

  The Falkland Islands Fisheries and Marine Protection, FISHOPS reports that on Friday at 4:00 AM in the morning, the duty officer received a call indicating a man from a Falklands' licensed Taiwanese jigger went overboard.

• Friday, March 8th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Premier Oil reports 2018 profit as a result of record production

  

  UK-based oil and gas firm Premier Oil with interests in the Falkland Islands has announced its full-year results for 2018, reporting a post-tax profit hike to US$ 133.4m as a result of record production. These full-year results are a ‘return to profitability’ from 2017’s full-year loss of US$ 253.8m.

• Friday, March 8th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  HMS Protector comes across an iceberg of 11 miles long and five wide

  

  The Royal Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship encountered an iceberg the size of Bristol as she began her final scientific mission of the season. HMS Protector came across the enormous mass of ice and snow – 11 miles long and five wide – as she returned to the frozen continent for the last time this winter – or summer as it is in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands coordinates distressed yacht Paradise rescue; injured crew member will be helicoptered to Stanley

  

  Early morning Thursday a helicopter from the Falkland Islands will be lifting ashore from the search and survey vessel Seabed Constructor, a Luxembourg national who suffered head injuries during the capsizing of the French flagged yacht Paradise in the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentina and UK coordinating joint SAR operations and logistics in Antarctica

  

  Argentina and UK are holding their second defense bilateral meeting in Buenos Aires, following on last year's first round held in London which put an end to fourteen years of interruption under the administrations of the Kirchner couple.