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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 02:08 UTC

Tag: South Atlantic

  • Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:47 UTC

    Falklands home to the largest population of South American fur seals

    The census, timed to coincide with the peak pupping season, focused on pups as an index for the population in general due to their distinctive black natal hair

    The Falkland Islands is home to the largest population of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus asutralis australis) in the world, according to a recent scientific paper.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

    How we recruited albatrosses to patrol the high seas for illegal fishers

    An albatross colony in the Falkland Islands

    By Samantha Patrick (*) – Wandering albatrosses have long been considered exceptional creatures. They can fly 8.5 million kilometers during their lifetimes – the equivalent of flying to the Moon and back more than ten times. Their three-and-a-half-meter wing span is the same length as a small car and they can weigh as much as 24 puffins. Their body shape means they can effortlessly glide over the ocean waves, flying in some of the strongest winds on Earth. Now research led by the Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé in France has found that these seabirds may have promising careers in the fight against overfishing.

  • Friday, January 10th 2020 - 14:10 UTC

    Argentine jiggers begin squid season south of parallel 44

    At the start of last year's season, jiggers were catching some 15/20 tons on average

    This Friday begins the Argentine squid season to the south of parallel 44, and west of meridian 62. Last year's season was encouraging with daily catches averaging 25/30 tons per jigger, however towards the end of April tonnage dropped dramatically, and the season was cut short.

  • Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

    Discovery of WW1 German Battlecruiser SMS Scharnhorst in Falklands waters

    The Scharnhorst, built in Hamburg in 1905, was the first to be sunk, having sustained substantial damage inflicted by HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible

    The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to announce that the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst has been located off the Falkland Islands. The Scharnhorst, an armoured battle-cruiser and the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk on 8 December 1914 during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, a crucial naval battle in the early days of the First World War.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez and Jeremy Corbyn talked about the Falklands/Malvinas claim

    “The Malvinas Islands are part of Latin-America, it is a territory which was taken from us”, argued president elect Alberto Fernandez

    Argentine president-elect Alberto Fernandez revealed that last week he received a call from UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, and despite the ideological affinity, the incoming president said that Argentina under his administration would, always, claim the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    New Falklands Patrol, HMS Forth, sails to the South Atlantic

    HMS Forth leaving the naval base of Portsmouth in southern England

    The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has set sail for a long-term deployment into the Falkland Islands. The ship left Portsmouth Naval Base early Friday for the South Atlantic where she will act as the Islands' Protection Vessel, replacing HMS Clyde.

  • Friday, October 18th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

    Humpback whales in the SW Atlantic total some 25.000, NOAA survey

    It's reckoned there are now just short of 25,000 individuals in the southwest Atlantic - more than 90% of the pre-exploitation level.

    One of the whale populations taken to the edge of extinction by commercial hunting in the early 20th Century has essentially recovered its numbers. It's estimated the humpbacks that frequent the southwest Atlantic once totaled perhaps 27,000 animals.

  • Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Tierra del Fuego condemns 1989 Madrid Treaty and UK “unilateral actions” in the South Atlantic  

    The conference held in Tierra del Fuego with the participation of the governor, Rosana Bertone, former foreign minister Jorge Bielsa, and the Malvinas Question related affairs Secretary, Jorge Arguell

    “Thirty years since the Madrid Treaty: rethinking a new national strategy for Malvinas”, was the heading of the conference held in the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego with the participation of the governor, Rosana Bertone, former foreign minister Jorge Bielsa, and the Malvinas Question related affairs Secretary, Jorge Arguello a diplomat and one of possible foreign minister names if the opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez wins the presidential election this month.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

    Multilateralism, Iran, Venezuela and Falklands in Macri's address to the UN General Assembly

    Macri called on the UK “to resume bilateral negotiations” that will help find a peaceful and definitive solution to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri defended the trade agreement of Mercosur with the European Union, as part of his government's strategy to open Argentina to the world, demanded Iran cooperates with the judicial system to help clear the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires, condemned the Venezuelan dictatorship of president Nicolas Maduro and called on the United Kingdom for dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, although reaffirming his country's “legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the South Atlantic Islands.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

    Falklands recognizes the twelve year service of HMS Clyde

    The Royal Navy's River-class vessel is recognized as the Falklands patrol ship, having been dedicated to the South Atlantic for the last 12 years.

    A special service has been held at Christ Church Cathedral on the Falkland Islands to celebrate the work of a long-standing community member - HMS Clyde. The Royal Navy's River-class vessel is recognized as the Falklands patrol ship, having been dedicated to the South Atlantic for the last 12 years.