Tag: Sally Poncet

• Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 05:49 UTC

  Falklands Memorial Map for the 258 families of fallen British combatants and Pangbourne Church

  

  “There's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.” Never were the words of Rupert Brooke more apt – though we must add Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to his original verse – than in the Falklands, where Islanders have named beaches, bays, harbors, islets, and inlets after the 258 souls killed in the 1982 conflict.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 12:32 UTC

  Non native species commercial farming back in the Falklands debate

  

  Responding to a question submitted by Sally Poncet, MLA Teslyn Barkman confirmed at the public meeting last week that there was no draft legislation to ban open pen large-scale salmon farming.

• Saturday, January 17th 2015 - 08:36 UTC

  Falklands resident and South Georgia Marine Officer awarded Polar Medals

  

  Environmentalist, renowned sailor and Falklands resident Sally Poncet has joined an elite group of only eight women to have been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal this year. South Georgia Marine Officer Patrick Lurcock has also received the honor.

• Friday, June 6th 2014 - 02:38 UTC

  Science and tourism combine in support of Wandering Albatross

  

  In a superb development for science and tourism in South Georgia, Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris is offering the opportunity for 7 people to join a scientific trip on the Hans Hansson surveying South Georgia’s wandering albatross.