Greeks - and quite a few of them - live at the very lowest corner of the world, near the Antarctic, in Punta Arenas, Chile, where they have decided to found the most distant Greek community from the homeland. It is located over 15,000 kms from Athens.

Cypriot events will be highlighted in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in late June and early July, which will be incorporated into the 8th International Congress of Greek Researches, to be organised by the Modern Greek department of Flinders University.

A great Greek patriot, journalist Lambros Papantoniou, passed away at the age of 68 on Thursday, May 28, at the Georgetown Hospital in Washington, where he had been treated for some time.

An exhibition on astronomy in antiquity is being hosted at the Nicholson Museum of the University of Sydney. The show displays ancient artefacts relating to the heavens, including Greek vases decorated with moon deities, Egyptian scarabs and European astrolabes.

The International conference on Greek Studies will be held in Adelaide in the first week of July, organised for the eighth time by the Modern Greek Department of Flinders University. The conference is held every two years, in cooperation with the Foundation for Hellenic Studies.