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The icebreaker Almirante Irizar has been the principal supply line for Argentine bases in Antarctica since 1978. Antarctica New Zealand; Argentine Antarctic Program; Australian Antarctic Division; Brazilian Antarctic Program; British Antarctic Survey [1] Instituto Antártico Argentino; Instituto Antártico Chileno; IPEV French Polar Institute
The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (popular as CRAMRA) is a treaty that is part of the Antarctic Treaty System.The convention was concluded at Wellington on 2 June 1988.
Exploration has demonstrated that several sedimentary basins in the Canadian Arctic are rich in oil and gas. In particular, the Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie Delta Basin has a discovery record for both gas (onshore) and oil and gas (offshore) although the potential beneath the deeper waters of the Beaufort Sea remains unconfirmed by drilling.
The act granting statehood gave Alaska the right to select 103 million acres (42 million ha) for use as an economic and tax base. [13] In 1966, Alaska Natives protested a federal oil and gas lease sale of lands on the North Slope claimed by Natives. Late that year, Secretary of the interior Stewart Udall ordered the lease sale suspended ...
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 ...
During the first five months of the 2024 fiscal year Eddy County collected $33M in oil and gas tax revenues. The county budgeted $52M for the year.
Two temperature records were set on February 6, one in each hemisphere, one for warmth, the other for mind-numbing cold. On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago, Antarctica set its all-time record high of ...
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