Tag: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

• 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”.

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 23:10 UTC

  Macri's Falklands policy and the Foradori/Duncan pact were “shameful”

  

  President Mauricio Macri's Malvinas question policy was “shameful” and the three bills sent to Congress to reaffirm Argentina State Malvinas claim policy, represent a drastic change in the “de-Malvinization process” of the last four years, explained Guillermo Justo Chavez, head of the foreign minister Felipe Solá's cabinet.

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  Foreign Office official visits Argentina to address a long agenda including Falklands

  

  Wendy Morton, the foreign office minister of European Neighborhood and the Americas arrives this Monday to Buenos Aires to meet with members of the Kirchner government, who over the weekend announced a new more demanding and aggressive Argentine policy referred to the Falklands and South Atlantic Islands sovereignty claim.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Forth arrives in the Islands

  

  The British Forces South Atlantic Islands and the Falkland Islands welcomed the arrival on Tuesday of the Royal Navy's next-generation patrol ship, HMS Forth. The ship has taken over the mission from HMS Clyde, which has offered protection to the Falklands and nearby South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands for the past 12 years.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands provides sea and air support for the search of missing Chilean aircraft

  

  Falkland Islands based PHAROS SG, on regular deployment as a South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands fishery patrol vessel, returned on Tuesday morning to Stanley Harbour, after assisting in the search for wreckage and debris from the Chilean C130 aircraft that went missing on Monday 09 December.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 18:51 UTC

  South Sandwich Islands hold one of the world's enduring eight lava lake in a crater

  

  Satellite pictures confirm there is a persistent lava lake inside the crater of a remote British Overseas Territory (BOT) volcano. Few enduring lava lakes are known globally; the one at Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the South Atlantic may be only the eighth such example.

• Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 07:18 UTC

  Argentina recalls the Day of Affirmation of its Rights over the South Atlantic Islands

  

  Argentina recalled on Monday, 10 June, a new anniversary of the creation in 1829 of the “Political and Military command headquarters of the Malvinas Islands and adjacencies to Cape Horn in the Atlantic Sea”, and which has been incorporated to the official calendar as the Day of Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and its surrounding maritime spaces.