Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Argentine Antarctica (Spanish: Antártida Argentina or Sector Antártico Argentino) [4] is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory.It consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the South Pole, delimited by the 25° West and 74° West meridians and the 60° South parallel. [5]
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however, a number of such facilities are located outside of the area claimed by their ...
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. Antarctic Peninsula map Location of the Antarctic Peninsula within Antarctica
The main difference of the map of Argentina is that the Argentine Antarctica is shown in the same scale as the continental Argentine territory, and the Tierra del Fuego Province is in the middle of the map, rather than the bottom. Rubén Címbaro, president of the IGN, said that the idea was to depict Argentina as a bicontinental country. Older ...
Brazilian Antarctica (Brazil's unofficial claim) and New Swabia (Nazi Germany's historical claim) are both marked out in the code of the image but has not been coloured in. (New Swabia is lacking northernly and southernly borders on the map though) Date: 30 June 2008: Source: Vector map from Antarctica blank.svg by STyx
A map of Argentina. The following are lists of islands that are part of, or claimed by, Argentina. The list is divided into three parts. The first part is those islands that are not disputed.
Their small group was part of a larger assemblage of about 100 guests and 25 guides who went to the Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina – and closest city to Antarctica – and then on ...
An airport and other infrastructure were also built. These projects attracted immigrants from other countries as well as other parts of Argentina. In 1990 the "National Territory of Tierra del Fuego, the Antarctic and the South Atlantic Islands" was declared a province, with its first governor appointed two years later.