EARTH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: South Orkney Islands, Peter I Island, Antarctic Treaty System

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First to step foot and claim, put flag down. 1908 established falkland islands dependencies (later named british antarctic. Orcadas (originally bruce"s scotia expedition) manned as a meteorological station since. 1904 by argentina on laurie island in the south orkney islands. New zealand 1923 ross dependency 150 w to 160 e. Australia 1933 australian antarctic territory 160 e to 45 e (except for france"s. France 1924 adelie land 142 2" e to 136 11" e claim) Norway 1939 dronning maud land and peter i island (1929) 45 e to 20 w (but not a sector or sliver of latitude) By 1939, all but 80 w to 150 w were claimed. Other claimant countries wanted us to claim remaining instead both the usa and ussr claimed the entire continent 1940 chile claimed from 53 w to 90 w (overlapped with british claim) 1943 argentina claimed from 25 w to 74 w (overlapped with british and chilean claims)

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