Hostilities in the Falkland Islands Dependencies March–June 1982

My short note in an earlier issue of Polar Record [21(133): 394–95 (1983)] outlined events in the Falkland Islands Dependencies arising from the Argentinian attack and occupation of April 1982, with a brief summary of the political exchanges preceding the Argentinian action. This article chronicles...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Headland, R.K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Cambridge University Press 1983
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524140/
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400021951
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Summary:My short note in an earlier issue of Polar Record [21(133): 394–95 (1983)] outlined events in the Falkland Islands Dependencies arising from the Argentinian attack and occupation of April 1982, with a brief summary of the political exchanges preceding the Argentinian action. This article chronicles some of the events that precipitated the dispute, and the military activities leading to the occupation and subsequent recovery of King Edward Point, the administrative centre and principal station of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on South Georgia.