The Obsolete Legacy of Antarctica

... ‘Antarctic territories’. In 2004, Australia filed a claim for the Antarctic shelf adjacent to "the Australian Antarctic sector" to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Similar claims may well come from Great Britain, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. At the same time, the failed Antarctic powers became embroiled in a tussle for territories between latitudes 40°S and 60°S [4] , i.e. the territories around Antarctica. The contest for these islands [5] and their ...