Tag: Punta Arenas

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Several Chilean salmon farming companies reported for contamination

  

  The Chilean Fisheries Department, Sernapesca has confirmed the appearance of garbage on the beaches of Riesco Island, which have been identified as belonging to nearby salmon farms. The companies reported are, Austral S.A, Australis; Blumar; and Magallanes SpA, and have been notified and have ten days to clear the beaches.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Climate change, weak markets and high costs challenge wool farmers in Punta Arenas

  

  After two years running with no shows, on Sunday ended the 69th Livestock Exposition of Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and which took place at Punta Arenas. Following a parade of the best cattle and sheep, there was a display of Chilean horses and riders' skills, and a colorful performance by the Municipal Folklore Ballet.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas

  

  The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Ushuaia and Punta Arenas consider the 2021/2022 cruise season over

  

  Two companies that were still organizing Antarctic cruises, over the weekend and almost coincidentally announced that the current trips would be the last, in effect putting an end to a short season.

• Thursday, March 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Compassionate charter flight to Chile not approved by Government of Argentina

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has been informed that the permissions required to operate a compassionate charter flight between the Falkland Islands and Chile have not been granted by the Argentine authorities. This flight was due to travel to Chile from the Falkland Islands on Saturday 19 March 2022, and return on Saturday 9 April, it was informed by the FIG on Wednesday.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Last living Yagan language speaker dies aged 93; members of her ethnicity lived in the Falklands

  

  The last known living person who spoke Yagan, the language of the indigenous people who inhabited Tierra del Fuego, passed away this week in the Clinics Hospital from Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile. She was 93, and had to be transported urgently from Puerto Williams to the Magallanes Region capital.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Punta Arenas cruise season: 27 vessels on tours of Antarctica

  

  The Punta Arenas port management company, in the extreme south of Chile, has offered a timetable of cruise vessel activities during the first two weeks of February. According to the program, eleven calls are scheduled in the two weeks to 15 February. Until Sunday 6 February six cruise vessels were effectively called.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Which is the world's most southern city?

  

  Which is the world's most southern city? Or which is the city closest to Antarctica. Somewhere in the southern tip of South America, be it Argentina or Chile. And the usual answer is Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which Argentines recognize as the gate to Antarctica.

• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Ushuaia Logistics Pole to compete with Falklands and Punta Arenas as Gate to Antarctica

  

  Argentina's Antarctica Logistics Pole to be built in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, at the current naval base will be totally financed, managed and autonomous, no strings with any of the leading powers in the ice continent and intended to compete with the Falkland Islands and the Chilean complex of Punta Arenas, as the gate to Antarctica.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2021 - 10:09 UTC

  Argentines expect in 2022, another record breaking inflation year, 51,3%

  

  Argentines expect that inflation in the next twelve months will reach on average 51,3%, according to the latest survey from the Torcuato Di Tella University. This is 0.9 percentage points higher than in the previous month of November when it was measured at 50,4%.