A masked demonstrator hurls a bottle containing paint at the front door of an HSBC Bank branch during a protest. Activists protested against the arrival of Britain's Prince William to the Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas in Spanish, for a planned military stint. Britain has controlled the islands, about 300 miles (480 km) off the southern Argentine coast, since 1833. In 1982, Britain sent a naval force and thousands of troops to reclaim the islands after Argentine forces sent by the country's then-military junta occupied them. About 650 Argentine and 255 British troops died in the 10-week conflictReuters
A masked demonstrator hurls a bottle containing paint at the front door of an HSBC Bank branch during a protest. Activists protested against the arrival of Britain's Prince William to the Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas in Spanish, for a planned military stint. Britain has controlled the islands, about 300 miles (480 km) off the southern Argentine coast, since 1833. In 1982, Britain sent a naval force and thousands of troops to reclaim the islands after Argentine forces sent by the country's then-military junta occupied them. About 650 Argentine and 255 British troops died in the 10-week conflictReutersDemonstrators march past the Tower of the English in Buenos AiresReutersMasked demonstrators march past an abandoned Harrods store in Buenos AiresReutersDemonstrators wave their weapons during a protest outside an HSBC Bank branchReutersDemonstrators shout slogans as a British flag lays on a street outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires February 2, 2012. Activists protested against the arrival of Britain's Prince William to the Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas in Spanish, for a planned military stint. Britain has controlled the islands, about 300 miles (480 km) off the southern Argentine coast, since 1833. In 1982, Britain sent a naval force and thousands of troops to reclaim the islands after Argentine forces sent by the country's then-military junta occupied them. About 650 Argentine and 255 British troops died in the 10-week conflictReutersDemonstrators burn a British flag outside the British embassyReuters
Angry Argentinians have burnt Union Jacks and paintbombed a branch of HSBC in Buenos Aires as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War approaches.
With the governments in the UK and Argentina indulging in more sabre-rattling and a Royal Navy ship en route to the South Atlantic for manoeuvres, the outcrops are again coming into sharp focus as a global flashpoint.
In Buenos Aires, pro-Malvinas protesters have taken to the streets to demonstrate their anger with Britain over the islands, a bone of contention for two centuries. Follow our slideshow:
