Remote Falkland Islands Back In The News  The Falkland Islands
are back in the news, now that Britain has allowed the first oil
wells to be dug in the South Atlantic island nation. So host Guy
Raz checks in with Stephanie Pearson of Outside magazine, who
profiled this remote land of quirky sheepherders, dangerous
minefields and one of the largest albatross populations on
Earth.   GUY RAZ, host:  Roughly 700 miles north of Antarctica,
the British overseas territory known to them as the Falkland
Islands is back in the news.  Britain has started to drill for
oil around the archipelago, and that's infuriated Argentina,
which never gave up its sovereignty claims over the islands. The
two countries, of course, went to war over the Falklands, which
Argentina calls the Malvinas, back in 1982. Buenos Aires is now
calling on the U.N. to intervene and stop the British oil
exploration.  Back in January, 2009, writer Stephanie Pearson
explored the Falklands. You can read her article in the March
issue of Outside magazine.