The Obsolete Legacy of Antarctica
... to the Arctic Ocean. At the same time, Russia supports the Antarctic’s international status, the Southern Ocean as a neutral zone, and a ban on economic activity on the southernmost continent [1] . As a result, diverging approaches to both the Arctic and Antarctic complicate Russian diplomacy. In the 1920s, five Arctic states split the Arctic into sectors and so became the five Arctic powers, with the Antarctic situation seemingly developing along the same lines. Arctic Failure In the 1920s, five Arctic ...
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