The United Nations has expanded Argentina's maritime territory to include the waters surrounding the Falkland Islands. This decision by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf was ...

A statement released earlier this afternoon from the Falkland Islands Government regarding the UN announcement of the extension of the Argentine continental shelf states that the announcement ...

The United Kingdom has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, or its right to make a submission to extend the continental shelf ...

For 187 years, the United Kingdom has controlled the Falkland Islands, ... claiming it an “unlawful assertion of jurisdiction over the Falkland Islands’ continental shelf.” ...

This decision by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf was welcomed by the Argentinian government, and gives the country fresh impetus in its claims to the British territory.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "Hydrocarbons activities by any company operating on the continental shelf of the Falkland Islands are regulated by legislation of the Falkland Islands government ...

The Falkland Islands is poised to approve a vast oil field in its waters in a diplomatic challenge to the UK and the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s anti-fossil ... [UK continental shelf], ...

Argentina has long disputed UK sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and fought a brief but bloody war after launching ... carried out by Navitas Petroleum on the Argentine continental shelf".

Authors and Affiliations (late Government Geologist for the Falkland Islands)., Wood View, Grosmont Road, Plumstead Common, London, S.E.18. HERBERT A. BAKER ...