Tag: Punta Arenas

• Monday, December 19th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  UK ambassador underlines close historic links between Falklands and Punta Arenas

  

  British ambassador in Chile Jon Benjamin met this week in Punta Arenas with a group of local students from municipal managed schools who were recently part of an exchange program with the Falkland Islands and underlined the close links between the two communities.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 03:52 UTC

  Chile opens ferry line linking Punta Arenas with Puerto Williams

  

  The new ferry that links extreme south ports of Chile was officially presented in Puerto Williams and is already fully operational ahead of the summer season.

• Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  Argentina sponsors a free movement of peoples’ area in Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego

  

  Argentina announced its full support to make the tip of the South American continent ‘a free movement of peoples’ area’ that would include Chile’s Magallanes region in the extreme south of the country and Tierra del Fuego, shared by the neighbouring countries.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 20:13 UTC

  Centennial of Amundsen and Scott’s South Pole feat next 14 December

  

  British and Norwegian teams are in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, preparing for a repeat of the South Pole feat on 14 December 1911 first accomplished by explorer Roald Amundsen and a month later by Sir Robert Scott.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:32 UTC

  Falklands and Punta Arenas work to establish closer agriculture technical links

  

  Representatives from the Falkland Islands Agriculture Department and private sector visited Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile to establish closer commercial, technical and academic links related to farming development.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 01:21 UTC

  Falklands’ governor says relations with Chile go back over 200 years

  

  Falklands’ Governor Nigel Haywood said UK relations with Chile go back over 200 years and it was “natural to have a strong relationship with a good neighbour”, reports the latest edition of Penguin News.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 21:11 UTC

  Falklands’ governor praises local Chilean community and links with Chile

  

  The Falklands Governor praised the Chilean members of the Islands community, described them as well integrated and good workers and said he hoped to further increase and consolidate the good longstanding relations with Chile and its people.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 02:11 UTC

  Chile’s oil corporation to drill ten exploratory wells in Magallanes region

  

  ENAP, Chile’s national oil and gas corporation announced it will invest 30 million dollars in drilling ten exploratory wells in Magallanes province, extreme south Patgonia and where the country’s main hydrocarbons resources are located.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2011 - 13:41 UTC

  Chile approves massive coal mining project in extreme south Patagonia

  

  The controversial Isla Riesco coal-mining project in the extreme south of Chile took another step forward last Friday when a high-level government commission gave final approval to the first of five mines, Mina Invierno.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:48 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia districts in ‘agriculture emergency’ because of snow storms

  

  Four districts in the Chilean extreme south region of Magallanes were declared in “agricultural emergency” given the harmful effects of snow storms in the area.