Tag: South Georgia

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentina’s ‘Blond Death Angel’ faces life imprisonment for kidnapping and torture

  

  A government lawyer called Friday for a life sentence for former Argentine naval officer Alfredo Astiz for crimes including the murder of two French nuns during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

• Thursday, May 5th 2011 - 08:18 UTC

  South Georgia rodents’ eradication campaign gets world headlines

  

  Conservationists say they are pleased with early efforts to kill rats on South Georgia, in what is the biggest rodent eradication campaign in history. No-one really knows how many rats inhabit the island in the South Atlantic, but it could be millions.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:58 UTC

  Five cruise vessels call in South Georgia during March

  

  The South Georgia tourist season is drawing to a close with just one cruise ship left to visit in early April, according to the latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 15:48 UTC

  UK increases funds for South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territory

  

  The UK Government has announced it is to increase funds for South Georgia and the other UK Overseas Territories. On March 10th the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, announced the increase of the Overseas Territories Programme Fund to £7m per year and a special one off payment of £1 million to GSGSSI this year, reports the March edition of South Georgia Newsletter.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:45 UTC

  HMS Gloucester returns to Portsmouth from Falklands on her final homecoming

  

  HRH The Duchess of Gloucester joined Type-42 destroyer HMS Gloucester as she sailed back into Portsmouth Friday from her seven-month deployment to the South Atlantic patrolling Falklands and South Georgia Island waters.

• Monday, February 28th 2011 - 20:41 UTC

  Ten cruise vessels and Falklands’ British Forces commander visit South Georgia

  

  An intense maritime activity was registered in South Georgia during the month of January including cruise and research vessels, the British Antarctic Survey ship “RRS James Clark Ross”, several yachts and HMS Gloucester, reports the latest South Georgia newsletter.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 21:46 UTC

  HMS Gloucester rounds up Falklands patrol with visit to South Georgia

  

  Royal Navy Portsmouth-based Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester, which is nearing the end of a seven-month deployment to the South Atlantic, has rounded off her Falkland Islands’ patrol with a visit to South Georgia.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Magnetic observatory in South Georgia to track the “South Atlantic Anomaly”

  

  A magnetic observatory is being re-established on South Georgia to provide vital data on the 'South Atlantic Anomaly' as scientists monitor a possible reversal of the earth's magnetic field. This field, generated deep within the planet, shields against particle radiation from space.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  South Georgia ready to launch the world’s biggest rodent eradication campaign

  

  The world’s biggest ever attempted rodent eradication campaign to be launched in South Georgia is only a few weeks away according to the South Georgia Heritage Trust's (SGHT) Habitat Restoration Project and reported in the January edition of the South Georgia newsletter.

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Refurbished HMS York scheduled to arrive in the Falklands mid March

  

  The Royal Navy HMS York based in Portsmouth is on her way to the South Atlantic to conduct maritime security patrols. The refurbished Type 42 destroyer will spend the majority of the five-month deployment patrolling the British South Atlantic islands including the Falklands and South Georgia.