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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 ...
English: Map showing the territorial claim to Antarctica by the country in the filename. Also on the map are is the 60° S Parallel, Antarctic Circle, 0/180 latitude line and (in red) the borders of the claims by other states.
Its total area is 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi). Argentina claims a section of Antarctica (Argentine Antarctica) that is subject to the Antarctic Treaty. Argentina also asserts claims to several British South Atlantic islands. With a population of 46.6 million, [2] Argentina ranks as the world's 31st most populous country as of 2010.
Administratively, Argentine Antarctica is a department of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands. This sector overlaps with Chilean and British claims but, under the Antarctic Treaty System , there are no attempts by Argentina or any other country to actually enforce territorial claims in Antarctica.
A blank map of Argentina in scalable vector form, including the territorials claims. This map is agree with legal regulations Argentina: Ley de la Carta [Law No. 22963], specially the bi-continental Argentina. Date: 8 September 2009: Source: Own work, based on the official cartography published by the Military Geographic Institute (IGM) Author ...
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
The British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill was based in the Argentine Islands in 1935 and conducted a thorough survey of them. [1] The expedition built a hut on Winter Island, which was used as their northern base; it was left in place at the end of the expedition, but destroyed circa 1946.