Falkland Islands

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 13:04 UTC

  Argentine President tells Chinese TV claims over Malvinas will go on

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday told a Chinese TV station that his country will keep up its sovereignty claims over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:28 UTC

  Argentina started the Malvinas war, but has yet to admit “we lost that war,” Lanata said

  

  “The Falklands/Malvinas war was triggered by Argentina and what we Argentines do not understand is that we lost that war. Malvinas belongs to the collective imagination of Argentina”. Statements from Argentine renowned independent journalist Jorge Lanata, recently interviewed by a Chilean television program on the current situation and prospects n the neighboring country.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands: Controlled explosion of an unexploded ordnance near the Old Dairy

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police informed that the controlled explosion of an unexploded ordnance near the Old Dairy has been completed and the section of the MPA Road is now open to vehicles.

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Taiana says UK attitude a “lack of respect for international law”

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Thursday demanded once again that Great Britain agrees to discuss the Malvinas/Falklands issue and insisted that the latter's reluctance to do so was a “lack of respect for international law.” Taiana also argued that “the powerful should not use force to impose their interests.”

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Penguin Awareness Day; Falklands home of five species, King, Magellanic, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Macaroni

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated on January 20 of every year. Penguins are a group of aquatic and flightless birds. They live in the Southern Hemisphere, and a particular species of the Penguin named Galapagos Penguin is found only in the north equator region called Temperate Zone.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Darwin Plus Local funding scheme for South Georgia projects' applicants

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is proud to promote and encourage science that contributes to developing and upholding best-practice environmental management and that supports the active management and good governance of the Territory.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector play football at the most southerly and rugged pitch: South Georgia

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy went head to head with British Antarctic Survey staff during a game of football on the most southerly – and arguably the worst – pitch in the world. The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole, to be precise.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Falklands Customs and Immigration Service: Fee increase for new Passports from next February

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Customs and Immigration Service has announced on Wednesday that the UK Passport Office, have made a fee increase to passports, which will be implemented Thursday 2 February 2023.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

  Borders & Southern Petroleum looking for partners to develop Falklands' gas condensate discovery

  

  Falkland Islands Borders & Southern Petroleum has produced a phased development concept for its Darwin gas condensate discovery south of the Falkland Islands, which has been supported by an independent study by an international engineering consultancy.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Falklands share the collective responsibility to tackle the climate crisis

  

  By MLA Peter Biggs (*) – In the Falkland Islands, the foundations of our livelihoods are reliant on our environment - fishing, agriculture, tourism - and these key sectors would not exist without healthy ecosystems.