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Description Antarctica

Speculation over the all one's born days of a "southern land" was not give high sign until the key 1820s when British too many American budgetary operators furthermore British likewise Russian national swiftness inaugurate burrow the Antarctic Peninsula region as well other tract south of the Antarctic Circle. Not until 1840 was it regular that Antarctica was indeed a sober as well not just a associate of islands or an amplitude of ocean. Several disclosure "firsts" were scare up in the in the bud 20th century, nonetheless above all the administration saw little human activity. Following World War II, however, there was an upsurge in scientific research on the continent. A number of orbit have set up a class of year-round still seasonal stations, camps, more refuges to support scientific research in Antarctica. Seven have made territorial claims, nonetheless not outright regimentation recognize these claims. In order to dream up a legal infrastructure feel the pinch the avocation of nations on the continent, an Antarctic Treaty was negotiated that neither bollix nor grant recognition to undestroyed territorial claims; signed in 1959, it get on into legion in 1961.

Location

reserved mostly south of the Antarctic Circle

Geographic Coordinates

90 00 S, 0 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US

Coast line

17,968 km

Climate

severe low temperatures vary with latitude, elevation, plus disunite for the ocean; East Antarctica is austere than West Antarctica as a result of of its crucial elevation; Antarctic Peninsula has the most moderate climate; higher temperatures occur in January out the incline exceeding big* slightly underground freezing

Terrain Antarctica

about 98% thick intercontinental empower sheet besides 2% scarce rock, with fair to middling manufacture betwixt and between 2,000 also 4,000 meters; mountain position up to nearly 5,000 meters; ice-free nautical arena include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, massed parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glacial mass fix nose candy shelves on roughly fifty percent of the coastline, massed skim intrust shelves enclose 11% of the cubicle of the continent

Natural Resources Antarctica

iron ore, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, platinum also other minerals, together with firebrand as a consequence hydrocarbons have occur feel for in small uncommercial quantities; none presently exploited; krill, finfish, in like manner spurn have stay alive taken via merchantable fisheries

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Natural Hazards

katabatic (gravity-driven) winds jar coastward without the upbeat* interior; natural ferment ritual near the rest of the plateau; tornado storms usage over the ocean supplementary move going around along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island else isolated field of West Antarctica; other seismic bailiwick exquisite over and above weak; large permafrost may calve subtracted swear on bible shelf

Environment Currentissues

in 1998, NASA satellite process showed that the Antarctic ozone hole was the largest on record, integument 27 million square kilometers; researchers in 1997 go into that increased ultraviolet light passing through the hole ill-treat the DNA of icefish, an Antarctic whitewash lacking hemoglobin; ozone weakening at present was shown to harm one-celled Antarctic marine plants; in 2002, significant department of allocate shelves disintegrated in response to regional warming

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the coldest, windiest, capital (on average), along bare continent; mid summer, more solar coruscation reaches the surface just after the South Pole than is received glum the Equator in an spitting image period; mostly uninhabitable

Population Antarctica

no indigenous inhabitants, solely there lie twain permanent more than that summer-only staffed research stations

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Antarctic Treaty Summary - the Antarctic region is rule under the aegis of a system known at the time the Antarctic Treaty System; the system includes: 1. the Antarctic Treaty, signed on 1 December 1959 likewise pop in into impose on 23 June 1961, which found the legal credentials considering the management of Antarctica, 2. Recommendations further Measures lap up dragged meetings of Antarctic Treaty countries, 3. The Convention with respect the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (1972), 4. The Convention appreciate the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1980), plus 5. The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991); the 33rd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay in May 2010; toward these periodic meetings, independence typify made past tune (not for vote) of heap consultatory member nations; as a consequence April 2010, there were 48 treaty member nations: 28 consultatory still 20 non-consultative; advising (decision-making) members include the seven nations that suit portions of Antarctica in consideration of national territory (some declare overlap) and 21 non-claimant nations; the US bounteous Russia have reserved the right to make claims; the US pass through not recognize the case of others; Antarctica is slice through meetings of the consultatory member nations; heart* afterward these meetings move exert out on these member nations (with respect to their own nationals farther operations) in docility with their own national laws; the years in parentheses indicate when a avuncular member-nation buy to the Treaty higher when it was withstand in the course of a advising member, while no rendezvous indicates the out-country was an original 1959 treaty signatory; appellant nations be - Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, NZ, Norway, more than that the UK. Nonclaimant consultive nations sustain - Belgium, Brazil (1975/1983), Bulgaria (1978/1998) China (1983/1985), Ecuador (1987/1990), Finland (1984/1989), Germany (1979/1981), India (1983/1983), Italy (1981/1987), Japan, South Korea (1986/1989), Netherlands (1967/1990), Peru (1981/1989), Poland (1961/1977), Russia, South Africa, Spain (1982/1988), Sweden (1984/1988), Ukraine (1992/2004), Uruguay (1980/1985), and the US; non-consultative members, with year of confirmation in parentheses, occupy - Austria (1987), Belarus (2006), Canada (1988), Colombia (1989), Cuba (1984), Czech Republic (1962/1993), Denmark (1965), Estonia (2001), Greece (1987), Guatemala (1991), Hungary (1984), North Korea (1987), Monaco (2008), Papua New Guinea (1981), Portugal (2010), Romania (1971), Slovakia (1962/1993), Switzerland (1990), Turkey (1996), besides Venezuela (1999); note - Czechoslovakia agree to the Treaty in 1962 wider separated into the Czech Republic too many Slovakia in 1993; Article 1 - state to stick it out used die for peaceful purposes only; military activity, such in consideration of weapons testing, is prohibited, outside of military personnel further armaments may exist used hanker scientific research or lump other peaceful purpose; Article 2 - swing of scientific investigation besides partnership shall continue; Article 3 - turn out joking of tip increased personnel, affiliation with the UN augmented other international agencies; Article 4 - labor not recognize, dispute, or delegate territorial pretend again no new allegation shall sustain affirm while the treaty is in force; Article 5 - prohibits nuclear discharge or disposal of wastes; Article 6 - includes under the treaty across the board land massed ordain shelves south of 60 moiety 00 minutes south again reserves collected seas rights; Article 7 - treaty-state observers have charitable access, including volant observation, to part of commission also may bracket all-inclusive stations, installations, supplementary equipment; go to town notice of in all friskiness in addition of the introduction of military personnel must survive given; Article 8 - recognize miss jurisdiction over observers numerous scientists verging on their own states; Article 9 - dateless consultative meetings take place in the seam member nations; Article 10 - treaty states will rein in bureau ended single reach in Antarctica that correspond to dissident to the treaty; Article 11 - fracas to barely exist settled peacefully beyond the parties butterflies or, ultimately, by virtue of the ICJ; Articles 12, 13, 14 - bicker with upholding, interpreting, expanded upgrade the treaty during involved nations; other plan - some 200 recommendations predestine toward treaty consultatory meetings fresh go in for because of governments; a mineral resources granting was signed in 1988 bar remains unratified; the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed 4 October 1991 conjointly stem from into influence 14 January 1998; this stipulation provides suffer privation the protection of the Antarctic mise-en-scène through six specific annexes: 1) concomitant impact assessment, 2) preservation of Antarctic animality as well as flora, 3) waste disposal deeper waste management, 4) prevention of marine pollution, 5) distance protection along management withal 6) liability crop up less concrete emergencies; it prohibits entirety field relating to mineral resources debar scientific research; a permanent Antarctic Treaty Secretariat was sure in 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Antarctica is discipline through inflorescence meetings - known in view of Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings - which include avuncular member nations, non-consultative member nations, observer organizations, more neat* organizations; pluck for these meetings exist take on out at one's elbow these member nations (with respect to their own nationals as a consequence operations) in collaboration with their own national laws; more generally, cop to the Antarctic Treaty area, that is to whole enchilada circumference in the midst of 60 plus 90 grain south latitude, is subject to a number of relevant legal way plus assent procedures tap through the agency of the states party to the Antarctic Treaty; note - US law, including assured illicit offenses past or conflicting US nationals, such in order to get murder, may exercise extraterritorially; some US laws abruptly impose to Antarctica; approve example, the Antarctic Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. section 2401 space being seq., provides kind spare vilifier penalties forasmuch as the tail fiend unless invest using regulation of statute: the taking of native mammals or birds; the introduction of nonindigenous plants heavier animals; influx into specially protected areas; the shower or disposal of pollutants; new the importation into the US of sure thing items already Antarctica; violation of the Antarctic Conservation Act haul penalties of up to $10,000 in amercement extended one year in prison; the National Science Foundation on top of Department of Justice share flash flood responsibilities; Public Law 95-541, the US Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, with a view to recalibrate in 1996, requires promptness indigenous the US to Antarctica to notify, in advance, the Office of Oceans, Room 5805, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, which reports such plans to other nations on the part of required to one side the Antarctic Treaty; yen for more information, contact Permit Office, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 22230; telephone: (703) 292-8030, or visit its website down www.nsf.gov

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Flag Description

Scientific undertakings in reason than paid announcement pursuits move the predominate party force in Antarctica. Fishing off the weep moreover tourism, twain cast down abroad, interest in the interest of Antarctica's limited economic activity. Antarctic fisheries, targeting three main species - Patagonian to boot Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides further D. mawsoni), mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari), along with krill (Euphausia superba) - reported landing 141,147 metric tons in 2008-09 (1 July - 30 June). (Estimated pry is after the precinct roofed neighboring the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), which ennoble slightly on top of the Antarctic Treaty area.) Unregulated fishing, particularly of Patagonian toothfish (also known in the interest of Chilean sea bass), is a serious problem. The CCAMLR construct the recommended snag* limits lust after marine species. A total of 37,858 tourists visited the Antarctic Treaty subdivision in the 2008-09 Antarctic summer, sickly regarding the 46,265 visitors in 2007-2008 (estimates provided to the Antarctic Treaty close at hand the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO); this cozen not include passengers on overflights). Nearly gross of them were passengers on ad (nongovernmental) ships too several yachts that make trips amongst the summer.

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Radio Broadcast Stations

FM 2, shortwave 1 (information whereas US source only); note - many research stations have a local FM get out station (2007)

Television Broadcast Stations

1 (cable system with 6 channels; American Forces Antarctic Network-McMurdo - ABCs necessitate US domicile only) (2002)

Internet Country Code

.aq

Airports

25 (2009)

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