Tag: South Sandwich Islands

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Macri at UN reaffirms Argentine sovereignty over Falklands, but also praises positive dialogue with UK

  

  President Mauricio Macri reaffirmed, once again, “Argentina's legitimate and imprescriptible sovereign rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime spaces”, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

  SGSSI Commissioner’s 12-Day Visit To South Georgia

  

  The Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE, returned on March 17th from his visit to South Georgia where he was accompanied by representatives of some of South Georgia’s key partners and stakeholders.

• Friday, January 12th 2018 - 09:44 UTC

  BAS team doing first scientific Southern right whale survey in South Georgia

  

  An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), travels to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia this month to carry out the first scientific whale survey since whaling stopped in the 1970s.

• Friday, November 10th 2017 - 10:12 UTC

  Plunge into South Georgia freezing waters to lobby for marine sanctuaries

  

  The United Kingdom government has been urged to create a marine sanctuary around islands in the South Atlantic which are “virtually untouched by humans”. Fully protecting 500,000 square kilometers around the South Sandwich Islands would preserve wildlife including penguins, seals, seabirds and whales, conservationists said.

• Saturday, September 30th 2017 - 13:01 UTC

  Environmentalists call for conservation measures in South Sandwich Islands area

  

  Environmental groups are coercing U.K. to protect and preserve one of the most remote area of the Antarctic. The South Sandwich Islands, on the edge of Antarctic remains rugged and uninhabited.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:31 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: regional summit to renew request for UN Secretary General good offices in the dispute

  

  Leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, expressed full support for Argentina's legitimate rights over the South Atlantic islands (Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich) and anticipated they will be requesting the UN Secretary General to renew his good offices for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and UK to reach a peaceful solution to the dispute.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 06:41 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina calls on UK for dialogue and sovereignty discussions

  

  Argentina has invited the United Kingdom to advance with the dialogue initiated last year to resume negotiations to enable in the shortest time possible, to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands, abiding the iterative calls from the international community, according to a release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

• Friday, September 16th 2016 - 07:21 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories Marine Protection Areas to double in four years

  

  Speaking ahead of “Our Ocean” conference in Washington DC, Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan announced plans to double the area of ocean under marine protection around the UK Overseas Territories to around four million square kilometers, greater than the landmass of India.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2016 - 09:10 UTC

  Nothing bogus about Continental Shelf claims

  

  By Osvaldo N Mársico (Chairman of COPLA) (*) - In my capacity as the head of the COPLA National Committee on Argentina’s Continental Platform at the Foreign Ministry, I would like to refer to the letter of Professor Peter Willets published last Saturday (Mercopress) concerning the outer limit of the Argentine continental shelf and clarify some mistakes and misconceptions evident in Professors Willets’ letter.

• Thursday, February 19th 2015 - 05:30 UTC

  Ascension and South Sandwich islands proposed for marine protected areas

  

  Ahead of the May 7 British general election, a coalition of conservationists and high-profile supporters has called upon the UK government to create three marine reserves that together would more than double the world’s protected waters, reports Inhabitat.