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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 Chilean Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena), is a part of West Antarctica and nearby islands claimed by Chile. It comprises the region south of 60°S latitude and between longitudes 53°W and 90°W , [ 2 ] partially overlapping the Antarctic claims of Argentina ( Argentine ...
Chilean Antarctic Territory map in Spanish, Chilean names. It shows the Chilean research stations. According to the Chilean argument, its claim to Antártica Chilena is as old as Chile itself. The Tordesillas Line established a west–east division of colonial territories between Portugal and Spain. [7]
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]
In Argentina, the Day of the Argentine Antarctic, or Argentine Antarctic Sovereignty Day (Spanish: Día de la Antártida Argentina, lit. 'day of the Argentine Antarctic'), [1] is commemorated annually on 22 February. It commemorates what Argentina says was the first permanent settlement, in 1904, in an area later claimed as an integral part of ...
Defense officials from Chile convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet on Thursday in a bid to bolster their territorial claims in Antarctica as tensions escalate over Russia's maneuvers in ...
Currently there are seven nations who maintain a territorial claim in Antarctica.It is sometimes stated that the Antarctic Treaty defers or suspends these claims. However, Article IV of the treaty, which deals with the issue of territorial claims, merely specifies that previously asserted claims are not affected by the treaty.
The municipalities of Condado de Treviño and La Puebla de Arganzón are part of the Province of Burgos within the Castille and Léon community, whilst being completely surrounded by the Province of Álava within the Basque Country, being one of the few internal territorial discontinuities to survive the 1833 reorganization of Spanish internal ...