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South Georgia’s whaling history to the prelude of the Falklands conflict (*)
The involvement of the Argentine navy in Davidoff's venture was a prelude to the invasion of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in 1982.
AZ Animals (US) on MSN7d
A Trillion-Ton Megaberg is Heading for South Georgia Island: Here’s What it Means for the Wildlife That Lives There
A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island near Antarctica. Imagine if the ice wall from Game of Thrones were mobile ...
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FALKLANDS AND THE BBC - FRIEND OR FOE?
‘The only British navy ship in the area, patrolling off the Falklands dependency of South Georgia, 1,000 miles southeast of the main islands, was the ice patrol vessel ‘Endurance’, armed ...
PlanetMountain8y
British first ascents in South Georgia
In mid-September 2016, Stephen Venables, Skip Novak, Crag Jones, Henry Chaplin, David Lund and myself made a four day crossing on the yacht Pelagic Australis from the Falkland Islands to the ...
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UKOTs, including Falklands, in SAR workshop with exercise of cruise vessel incident
SAR, workshop for UK Overseas Territories took place in Miami during the first week of February, with the purpose of sharing ...
The Daily Telegraph27d
Fisherman seconds from safety slips from helicopter in Falklands rescue attempt
The Falklands Islands government has now praised the four-strong Bristow helicopter crew for doing “everything they possibly could to rescue the mariners” aboard the Argos Georgia. Details of ...