Voting day in the Falklands – but not for penguins or albatrosses.

The human population of the Falklands Islands is voting today (and tomorrow) on their future – whether to remain British or not.  It’s a foregone conclusion that the c1800 adult population of these islands in the south Atlantic will vote to remain British. The Falkland Islands government website has a few pretty photographs of penguins…

Leave the krill for the whales

Did you see Hugh’s Fish Fight last night? I don’t always watch it but I did yesterday as I saw it was about South Georgia and that’s been a subject which I have covered in this blog (here and here). South Georgia is a long way away from here but is a UK Overseas Territory…

Half-cooked protection

Those Yorkshiremen get everywhere don’t they?  Certainly Captain James Cook seems to have done.  His journeys of discovery are generally regarded as being Pacific Ocean expeditions but to get to the Pacific you have to start in the Atlantic and either hang a right and go around Cape Horn or hang a left and go…