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The Legal Status of the Arctic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Oscae Svarlien*
Affiliation:
University of Florida

Abstract

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Type
Fourth Session
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1958

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References

1 International Geophysical Tear, the Arctic, Antarctica. Report of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, 85th Cong., 2nd Sess., Feb. 17, 1958.

2 See article by Jordan, William J., New York Times, April 19, 1958, p. 1f and p. 2 Google Scholar, for the text of the Moscow news conference statement by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, as well as the text of the United States Department of State reply to the Soviet charges; also articles in the N.Y. Times on April 19 and succeeding dates, for the convening of the United Nations Security Council and subsequent action. For Arctic “open skies” as proposed by the U. S., see chart on facing page.

1 124 A.J.I.L. 703 (1930).

1 Antarctica in World Affairs, Headline Series, No. 128 (March-April, 1958), p. 3.

2 For an indication of current IGY stations and claims, see the outline map facing page 147.

3 Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of the Interior, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Central Intelligence Agency, Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Defense Mobilization, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Archives, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Board on Geographic Names. From "United States Government Departments and Agencies Participating in or Interested in the Antarctic," prepared by Dr. Henry M. Dater, Office of United States Antarctic Projects (mimeo.).

4 See 104 Cong. Rec. 881-882 (No. 12, 85th Cong., 2nd Sess., Jan. 27, 1958).

5 International Geophysical Tear Manual on Pockets and Satellites (London: Perga-mon Press, 1958) (with Lloyd, V. Berkner, Google Scholar).