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Colonization of Antarctica is the establishing and maintaining of control over Antarctic land for exploitation and possibly settlement. [1]Antarctica was claimed by several states since the 16th century, culminating in a territorial competition in the first half of the 20th century when its interior was explored and the first Antarctic camps and bases were set up.
Antarctica is the southernmost continent on Earth. While Antarctica has never had a permanent human population, it has been explored by various groups, and many locations on and around the continent have been described. This page lists notable places in and immediately surrounding the Antarctic continent, including geographic features, bodies ...
Settlement capable of housing more than 1,000 people [1] McMurdo Station , Antarctica 77°51′S 166°40′E / 77.850°S 166.667°E / -77.850; 166.667 ( McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Puerto Williams (Spanish: [ˈpweɾto ˈ(ɣ)wiljams]; Spanish for "Port Williams") is a city, port and naval base on Navarino Island in Chile.It faces the Beagle Channel.It is the capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province, one of four provinces in the Magellan and Chilean Antarctica Region, and administers the communes of Chilean Antarctic Territory and Cabo de Hornos.
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are an overseas territory of France that consist of the following: Adélie Land (Terre Adélie): This is the French claim on the southern most continent of Antarctica. Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet): A group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean, located south of Madagascar.
Oceanic islands between the Equator, 60°S, 20°W, and 115°E are the only Southern Hemisphere lands (besides East Timor) outside the five southern nuclear-weapon-free zones. Bouvet Island and the Kerguelen Islands are Antarctic islands on this map but outside the Antarctic NWFZ. Australian islands are parts of the South Pacific NWFZ.
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Puerto Toro is considered to be a sub-Antarctic tundra climate in the Köppen climate classification, despite the fact that it is surrounded by forests.However, it still has very mild winters for a tundra climate and if it had a daily mean in any month more than 50 F (10 C), it would be a Cfc (subpolar oceanic) or a cold semidesert (it has less than 20 in of rain a year) climate, not a Dfc ...