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Common interests in the international space of Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Paul Arthur Berkman*
Affiliation:
Scott Polar Research Institute and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2ED, and Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA (pb426@cam.ac.uk)

Extract

The Antarctic Treaty was adopted by twelve nations in Washington, DC on 1 December 1959 with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind. Seven of these nations asserted territorial claims, including the overlapping claims of Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom in the Antarctic Peninsula. The five other nations were non-claimants, including the United States and Soviet Union (now Russian Federation), which reserved rights to press claims in the future.

Type
50 years on: invited reflections on the Antarctic Treaty
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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