Tag: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

• Sunday, August 3rd 2025 - 11:44 UTC

  South Georgia, new electronic permit system for visitors delayed for technical reasons

  

  The South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands archipelago will soon introduce a mandatory electronic travel authorization (ETA) system for all visitors. This measure aims to strengthen environmental protection while regulating tourism and scientific activities in this preserved British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic and its vast surrounding Marine Protected Area.

• Saturday, June 28th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  OAS passes unanimous declaration favoring Argentina's stance regarding Falklands/Malvinas

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) unanimously adopted a declaration during its General Assembly in Antigua and Barbuda, supporting Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 23:55 UTC

  Falklands new Acting Governor sworn in, Adam Pile OBE son of a war Veteran

  

  Falklands Government House announced on Tuesday July 30 that the Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories Directorate of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Adam Pile OBE, has been sworn in as the Acting Governor of the Falkland Islands and Acting Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

• Monday, June 10th 2024 - 19:00 UTC

  Argentine Foreign Ministry highlights June 10 Malvinas Sovereignty Day

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Monday on the 195th anniversary of the establishment of a garrison known as the Political and Military Command in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in the name of the Province of Buenos Aires. The settlement remained there until it was displaced in 1833 by a stronger British force. The document reviewed Argentina's claims following that event.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

  Britain fully confident in Falklands' security and capability of the three services

  

  Britain remains fully confident in the security of the Falkland Islands and in the capability to defend them underlined a release from the Ministry of Defense, in response to a report in the London media claiming it only relies in a small Royal Navy patrol vessel and four RAF Typhoons to protect the South Atlantic archipelago.

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Penguins, postage stamps and Russian politics: What it’s like to rule the territory with no citizens

  

  By Jonathan Margolis, The Telegraph – Monday 25 April is South Georgia's Liberation Day, when a British Task Groupin 1982 recovered the island from Argentine military occupation. However, the island has no citizens to celebrate the event, with no more than thirty temporary residents.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 08:26 UTC

  Canadian appointed South Georgia new Visitor Management Officer

  

  After a thorough recruitment and selection process, and in anticipation of the coming tourist season, the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands have announced the appointment of Allison Kean as the new Visitor Management Officer.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 18:10 UTC

  Amateur radio call signs: VP8 for Falklands and VP0 for South Georgia, South Sandwich and BAT

  

  Due to an administrative oversight in the new Falkland Islands Communications Ordinance implemented way back in 2017, new VP8 licenses for use in the former Falkland Islands Dependencies have not been available for some years now.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 05:40 UTC

  “We will continue to pursue Malvinas sovereignty in all world forums” pledges president Fernandez

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez has repeatedly said that the “Malvinas question” is a matter of State and his government “will continue to pursue sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands until we recover the territory, which is currently usurped by the United Kingdom”.