On Wednesday 18 June, two elected members from the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, MLAs Mark Pollard and Peter Biggs ...

Port Stanley is the Falkland Islands' only city Credit: Rex. 3. 255 British military personnel died in the 74-day conflict in 1982 Credit: Getty. The British title is relegated to a set of ...

Gerard VK4BGL/G3WIP will be active as VP8DPD from Falkland Islands, IOTA SA-002, 10 May - 12 July 2025. ... the French navigator Louis de Bougainville founded a settlement on the eastern edge of the ...

Falkland Islands set to build incredible new port as £150m secured The money was raised with the help of a team at Rothschild & Co, one of the world's largest independent financial services groups.

Five years later, the French arrived. Landing in 1715, they renamed the island ‘Isle de France’ and established Port Louis as both a naval base and a shipbuilding centre. Under ... regarding the ...

Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini left Lyttelton Port in New Zealand on Saturday (January 4, 2025) morning at about 9. 30 a.m. local time for Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) in the third ...

VP8G Falklands News. Gerben, PG5M will be active as VP8G from Falkland Islands, IOTA SA - 002, 15 - 25 November ... who laid claim to the islands. In 1764, the French sailor Louis de Bougainville ...

Falkland Islands residents overwhelmingly voted to maintain the archipelago as a British territory in a referendum held in 2013. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Ms Mondino agreed to ...

Lammy told the Commons the particular circumstances around the Chagos Islands are "not comparable" to other territorial disputes, in particular Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands - which the ...

Falkland Islands ‘were covered in lush rainforest up to 30 million years ago’ Dr Zoe Thomas, from the University of Southampton, found that the South Atlantic archipelago was once covered in ...

The rugged Falkland Islands were home to a “lush, diverse rainforest” up to 30 million years ago, a study has found. A researcher from the University of Southampton has found evidence that the ...