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The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a part of East Antarctica claimed by Australia as an external territory. It is administered by the Australian Antarctic Division , an agency of the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water .
The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is a division of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.The Division undertakes science programs and research projects to contribute to an understanding of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
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 committee was founded in 1952 as the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia, [1] [2] and changed to the current name in 1982 to reflect the multiple functions that the committee is responsible for. The committee was replaced by the Australian Antarctic Division Place names Committee in 2015. [3]
Globe showing Australia and Antarctica, approx 100 Mya. This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Australia or Antarctica. Criteria for inclusion
Further Australian exploration of the Antarctic continent was conducted during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), which was conducted over the years 1929–1931. [2] The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions were established in 1947 [3] with expeditions to Macquarie Island and Heard ...
Hurley was the official photographer accompanying Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–16, and returned to Antarctica in 1930 with the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE). [9] Sidney Jeffryes: 27 Wireless operator, replacement for Walter Hannam: Joined base February 1913. [8]
The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, [2] is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).