Falkland Islands

• Thursday, October 16th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands distinguished as the “Best Destination for Wildlife and Nature”

  

  The Falkland Islands have been awarded the “Best Destination for Wildlife and Nature” prize by the Travel Agents Choice Awards, an annual event organized by the prestigious tourism industry publication, Selling Travel Magazine.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 19:27 UTC

  Falklands at the Bird Fair with record attendance and “flawless performance”

  

  The Falkland Islands were one of the main sponsors for the second year in a row of the recently completed annual Bird Fair event at the Rutland Wildlife Reserve, which had a better than expected attendance, and according to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board “went off flawlessly”.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Falklands case at Gibraltar conference on self-determination and independence

  

  An international symposium looking at the historical backdrop underpinning the concepts of self-determination, devolution, and independence on self-determination will take place next Thursday and Friday in Gibraltar. The aim of this conference is to look at these concepts and to explore them across a number of different examples.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 06:00 UTC

  A masterly account of the Battle of the Falklands 1914

  

  The Battle of the Falklands 1914 By Graham Pascoe reviewed by David Tatham - With the centenary of the 1914 naval battle coming up in December and commemorations planned for Falkland Islands capital, Stanley and London, Graham Pascoe’s concise account of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands is well timed.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 05:15 UTC

  Lady Alice: “Argentines eat a lot of beef, but have never eaten a journalist”

  

  Jeremy Clarkson and BBC's 'Top Gear' program need publicity and controversy to keep going and that he has managed with his recent incursion through the south of Argentina, which ended with his team escorted to the border with Chile fearing 'for their lives', which obviously impeded them from accomplishing their formal task but not the real objective.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 01:18 UTC

  Falklands lawmakers at CPA conference discuss support for the Islands and education

  

  Falkland Island lawmakers, MLAs, Barry Elsby and Phyl Rendell have been attending the 60th annual meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) conference in Yaounde, Cameroon. CPA is made up of Parliamentarians from 53 democratic countries with 188 branches in 9 Regions across the world.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 05:44 UTC

  Falkland Islands' Tourist Board gearing up for another busy season

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board is in the final stages of Phase 2 renovations on the Jetty Visitors Centre which will complete the planned works said Tourist Board Managing Director Tony Mason, adding, “plans have been made to get the car park ready well ahead of the first cruise ship arrival.”

• Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  HMS Iron Duke and Ice Patrol HMS Protector coincide in South Georgia

  

  The Royal Navy HMS Iron Duke on Atlantic Patrol Tasking south berthed this week in South Georgia for a few days where she also met with Ice Patrol HMS Protector which arrived at the islands on her deployment to Antarctica, after battling hurricane force winds and 24 meters waves.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 07:19 UTC

  Falklands' offshore Scotia well not viable: Noble Energy will take 75m write down

  

  Houston-based Noble Energy will take a 75 million write down for exploration costs after determining that its offshore Scotia well in the Falkland Islands is not commercially viable. The well was drilled in 2012 using 2D seismic interpretation but was deemed non-commercial following analysis of 3D seismic data.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

  

  BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.