Tag: South Georgia

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 11:30 UTC

  Fantastic fund raising helped clear rodents from 600 hectares in South Georgia

  

  A fantastic £60,000+ of funding was raised for the SGHT Habitat Restoration Project on South Georgia in the 2010-2011 season thanks to the many visitors who sponsored a hectare.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:22 UTC

  South Georgia set of stamps to celebrate marriage of Prince William and Kate

  

  A set of three stamps, a beautiful souvenir sheet-let and two first day covers will be released by South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on July 25th to mark the recent Royal Wedding, reports the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 02:13 UTC

  Coin recalls the centenary of the legendary “race to the South Pole”

  

  The centenary of the legendary ‘Race to the South Pole’ between Britain’s Robert Falcon Scott and Norway’s Ronald Amundsen is marked by a new SGSSI coin just released by Pobjoy Mint, announced the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:39 UTC

  HMS York returns to Portsmouth after months on Falklands and South Georgia duty

  

  Type-42 destroyer HMS York returned to cheering crowds of families and well-wishers at Portsmouth Naval Base last week following a varied and wide-ranging deployment to the Falklands in the South Atlantic and Libya.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:47 UTC

  South Georgia mentioned as example of longline fisheries seabirds protection

  

  A new global estimate of the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds reveals that, despite efforts to reduce seabird deaths, upwards of 300,000 birds are still being killed every year. However South Georgia is praised for having imposed strict regulations that have seen seabird deaths as bycatch drop by 99%.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:38 UTC

  BAS James Clark Ross discovers underwater volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands

  

  Scientists who have discovered previously unknown underwater volcanoes around the remote South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean say the research is important to help understand what happens when volcanoes erupt or collapse underwater.

• Monday, June 27th 2011 - 16:17 UTC

  Falklands, South Georgia success in minimizing long-line fishing seabird bycatch

  

  A study has revealed that at least 160,000 and potentially in excess of 320,000 seabirds are killed annually in longline fisheries globally. Some previous studies have assessed the level of seabird by catching longline fisheries for particular regions and groups of seabirds, but this is the first study to provide a global estimate of by-catch of all seabirds in longline fisheries.

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 21:56 UTC

  Argentina asks more support from Ban Ki–moon for Malvinas sovereignty claim

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, renewed the Argentine claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who’s visiting the country on his birthday.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 09:09 UTC

  South Georgia ordinance gives new powers to protect unique natural environment

  

  Tuesday afternoon on May 31st saw the signing of the Wild Life and Protected Areas Ordinance for the Government of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI).

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:16 UTC

  South Georgia marine biodiversity richer than the Galapagos Islands

  

  Sea spiders the size of dinner plates and two-meter-long ribbon worms that eat prey several times their own size were among the 1,400-plus species cataloged by the British Antarctic Service in a comprehensive study of marine life around South Georgia Island.