Tag: landing day

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 23:36 UTC

  Reader's letter: a Head of the Bay farmer recalls the 1982 British landing

  

  MercoPress this week received a letter from reader Michael (“Ted”) Jones, a farmer at Head of the Bay —a settlement located in the immediate vicinity of the site where British forces landed on 21 May 1982—, in response to the Landing Day ceremonies led on Thursday by the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly. Both Jones and his wife Shelia were at Green Beach Port San Carlos during the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over sovereignty of the archipelago. We publish his message below.

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 20:07 UTC

  Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly pays tribute to 1982 British landing

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday issued an official statement commemorating Landing Day, the date that recalls the arrival of British forces at San Carlos Bay on 21 May 1982, during the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina over sovereignty of the archipelago. The institutional declaration pays tribute to “the courage and sacrifice of those who came to restore our freedom and right to self-determination” and emphasizes that “the service of all who supported the liberation of our Islands will never be forgotten.”

• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:29 UTC

  Falklands celebrates St Helena Day and honors Landing Day anniversary

  

  The Falkland Islands joined St Helana Day by having the flags of both UK Overseas Territories flying in Stanley’s Victory Green on Wednesday 21st May from 16:30 until Thursday 16:30.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Falkland Islands commemorates Landing Day, 38 years ago, in San Carlos

  

  The Falkland Islands commemorated on Thursday Landing Day, 38 years ago when British Forces took several beaches in San Carlos settlement beginning the recovery of Islands territory.

• Thursday, May 24th 2012 - 16:02 UTC

  Falklands’ service to honour British Forces who lost their lives when landing for the recovery of the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands held a commemorative service to the memory of those who lost their lives thirty years ago when British Forces landed in the Islands for the final push against the occupying Argentine forces.