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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Stanley, Falkland Islands

The 74-Day Falklands War of April-June 1982 Between Argentina and the United Kingdom Over the South Atlantic Archipelago

Argentine military forces invaded the British-administered Falkland Islands at 04:30 local time on 2 April 1982. The British task force dispatched on 5 April 1982 retook the islands across 21 May - 14 June 1982. The 74-day war killed 649 Argentine and 255 British military personnel. The Argentine military junta collapsed within a year.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Endurance wreck, Weddell Sea

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition That Never Reached Antarctica Because the Ship Was Crushed in the Ice and Whose Twenty-Eight Men All Survived

Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was beset in the Weddell Sea pack ice on 19 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November 1915. The twenty-eight men reached uninhabited Elephant Island in April 1916; Shackleton then crossed 800 miles of the southern ocean in an open lifeboat to South Georgia. All twenty-eight survived. The wreck was located on the Weddell Sea floor in 2022.

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