Tag: Punta Arenas

• Wednesday, November 5th 2025 - 16:43 UTC

  Bad news for Punta Arenas: NFS Antarctic researchers and icebreakers return to US

  

  Severe cuts in Budget resources for the United States National Science Foundation, (NSF) dictated by president Donald Trump are having an impact on Antarctic research, and a huge financial loss for the community of Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile, according to polar scientists.

• Saturday, October 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas planning a world-class aquarium with over 90 Antarctic species

  

  Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, is planning and betting big, a future polar aquarium at the International Antarctic Center, CAI, exhibiting over 90 species from the austral ocean, and with four main sponsors, the Magallanes University, the Magallanes Region Government, the Chilean Antarctic Institute and the Chilean Science Ministry

• Monday, April 28th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Falklands’ volleyball team competing in international tournament in Punta Arenas

  

  Another sport that is picking up in the Falkland Islands is volleyball, and last Saturday, a delegation with ladies' and men's teams left for an international three-day competition in Punta Arenas, Chile, where the Falklands flag will be flying.

• Monday, February 24th 2025 - 07:56 UTC

  Falklands U15 girls and boys teams dispute Friendship Cup in Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas city, southern Chile media is giving a great display to the international juvenile football competition that started on Sunday and has one of its main attractions the Falkland Islands Youth Football teams, both girls and boys.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2024 - 07:20 UTC

  Greetings from the Falkland Islands

  

  By MLA Gavin Short for Infogate  - We have passed nearly through spring and are but a few days away from summer which has proved to be cooler and wetter than in previous years, which is a blessing after the dry seasons experienced over the last few years and I believe that despite the lower temperatures, grass growth is good which will be welcomed by our rural sector.

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 06:10 UTC

  “The Magellan Strait belongs to Chile“, underlines US Ambassador

  

  “The United States has been very clear that the Magellan Strait belongs to Chile, and I can assure you there is no intention of holding naval exercises with Argentina along the Magellan Strait,” US ambassador in Chile Bernadette Meehan said point blank during a visit to Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, following on rumors published in the neighboring country media.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:24 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects some 170 cruise calls this season, beginning 14 September

  

  Some 170 cruise calls and an estimated 100,000 visitors are what the Punta Arenas, Austral Ports Enterprise, Epaiustral, is expecting for the coming 2024/25 season. Of these 128 are internationally flagged vessels, while the remaining fifty belong to local Chilean cruise companies, the Ventus and the Stella Australis.

• Monday, February 26th 2024 - 11:23 UTC

  English tourist dies during flight from Falklands to Punta Arenas

  

  A British passenger flying with his wife from the Falkland Islands to Punta Arenas arrived dead at the Chilean airport. The 59-year-old English tourist and his wife were planning to catch a connecting flight to Santiago de Chile.

• Monday, November 13th 2023 - 20:54 UTC

  Panama Canal shipping queues: Punta Arenas dreams of a re-edition of pre 1914 scenario

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile and the South American continent is again illusioned with the re edition of pre 1914 times, before the United States finished the Panama Canal and created the state of Panama, significantly cutting the time of shipping wishing to cross from the Pacific to the Caribbean and vice versa, and ensuring safe and reliable links between the East and West coasts of the US.

• Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Chilean President denounces deadly threats

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Friday said he had received deadly threats from an ultra-rightwing group that threw pamphlets outside his parents' home in the city of Punta Arenas, some 3,000 kilometers south of Santiago.