Tag: South Georgia

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  Falklands receives Pan-American science delegation including Chile, Brazil and Colombia

  

  Following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, who first visited the Islands in 1833, the first ever Pan–American Science Delegation to the Falkland Islands arrived in Stanley on Saturday, January 17.

• 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.

• Sunday, December 21st 2014 - 10:58 UTC

  HMS Iron Duke returns from South Atlantic patrols

  

  Hundreds of families welcomed back their loved ones for Christmas as HMS Iron Duke returned to Portsmouth from a successful South Atlantic patrol conducting maritime security operations and providing support to British Overseas Territories in the region.

• Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 04:45 UTC

  Holdout funds, Malvinas: Mercosur presidents back Argentina

  

  Full support also expressed for Venezuela against sanctions from the administration of United States President Barack Obama.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 19:19 UTC

  Commissioner’s first visit to South Georgia

  

  THE Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Colin Roberts, has just returned from a ten day trip to South Georgia. The visit was the Commissioner’s first to the island and the initial port of call was King Edward Point (KEP), the seat of administration on the island.

• Tuesday, November 25th 2014 - 06:57 UTC

  Busy October in South Georgia: 21 harbor calls and 400 paying cruise visitors

  

  October was a busy month for shipping activities in South Georgia with 21 harbor visits to Cumberland Bay and nearly 400 paying passengers visiting, according to the latest edition (October) of the South Georgia News and Events release.

• Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 07:19 UTC

  South Georgia prepared to help return the trawler 'Viola', an icon of Hull

  

  Steam trawler “Viola” that skirmished with U-boats in the First World War has spent the past 50 years rusting off in South Georgia could finally be making its final voyage home, to Hull, according to a piece from Will Ramsey published in the Hull Daily Mail.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 21:09 UTC

  Falklands' guardian HMS Clyde braves storms for routine South Georgia visit

  

  Falkland Islands guardian HMS Clyde braved spring storms to pay her first visit of the Austral summer to the wildlife paradise of South Georgia. The patrol ship crossed 850 miles of ocean to reach the remote island – part of its domain as the Royal Navy’s permanent presence in the Falklands – to work with British Antarctic Survey scientists and generally fly the flag for the UK.

• Saturday, October 25th 2014 - 10:53 UTC

  Trekker technology captures imagery of Shackleton's South Georgia

  

  Trekker technology captures imagery of one of the most rarely-visited places on earth, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, made famous by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the bravest and most remarkable explorers. It offers end users the literal experience of being an explorer by traveling to places where traditional vehicles – or they - cannot go.

• Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  HMS Iron Duke and Ice Patrol HMS Protector coincide in South Georgia

  

  The Royal Navy HMS Iron Duke on Atlantic Patrol Tasking south berthed this week in South Georgia for a few days where she also met with Ice Patrol HMS Protector which arrived at the islands on her deployment to Antarctica, after battling hurricane force winds and 24 meters waves.