ANTARCTIC REGION

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Port Elizabeth

Year-round research station

SOUTH 30 AFRICA

Scale 1:68,000,000
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
0 0 500 1000 Kilometers 500 1000 Miles

South Atlantic Ocean

Anta r c ti
40

Twenty of 27 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)

c C onv erg enc e

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS
50

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

(SOUTH AFRICA)

BRITISH CLAIM

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)

ARGENTINE CLAIM

Southern Ocean

NORWEGIAN CLAIM
undefined limit

LES CROZET
60
60

Scotia Sea

Orcadas
(ARGENTINA)
SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

SANAE
(SOUTH AFRICA)

Novolazarevskaya
(RUSSIA)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

(FRANCE)

Neumayer
ARGENTINA
SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS

(GERMANY)
area of enlargement

Maitri
(INDIA)
70

Syowa (JAPAN) Molodezhnaya

(RUSSIA)
Enderby Land

Ushuaia

Queen Maud Land

Halley (U.K.)

LES KERGUELEN

Drake Passage
CHILE

Weddell Sea
Palmer Land

Belgrano II
(ARGENTINA)
80
Mac. Robertson (AUSTRALIA) Land

Mawson

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

(AUSTRALIA)

Ronne Ice Shelf

CHILEAN CLAIM
90 W

Zhong Shan(CHINA) Progress (RUSSIA) Amundsen-Scott

South Pole 2800 m.

Amery Ice Shelf

Davis(AUSTRALIA)

Bellingshausen Sea
Peter I Island

Ellsworth Land

+ Vinson Massif

Indian
Mirnyy Vostok
(RUSSIA) (RUSSIA)
90 E

(highest point in Anarctica, 4897 m)

(U.S.)

+ Bentley Subglacial Trench

(lowest point in Anarctica, -2540 m)

Ocean
C L AI
M

Scott

average minimum extent of sea ice

Victoria Land Dumont d'Urville

70

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Uruguay each have a station on King George Island.

64

(FRANCE)
0

66

60

Arturo Prat (CHILE)

Bernardo O'Higgins (CHILE)

Marambio (ARGENTINA)

55
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NE

Southern Ocean
ZEA

LAN

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Campbell Island

60

I AL T R AI M S AU CL
(AUSTRALIA)

AN

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Esperanza (ARGENTINA)

Ant

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FRENCH CLAIM

65

Antarctic Peninsula

Graham Land Palmer (U.S.) Vernadsky (UKRAINE)

An

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Macquarie Island

(NEW ZEALAND)

AUCKLAND ISLANDS
(NEW ZEALAND)
50

South Pacific Ocean

62

60

Tasmania Hobart

SNARES ISLANDS

Larsen Ice Shelf

CHATHAM ISLANDS
(NEW ZEALAND)
15

(NEW ZEALAND)

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
180

Adelaide Melbourne

South Island
40

70

Southern Ocean

Christchurch Sydney North Island

Canberra

Rothera (U.K.)

San Martin (ARGENTINA)

AUSTRALIA
802917AI (R02207) 6-02

64

68

30

12

Circle

Scott Island

BALLENY ISLANDS

AU S

Ross Sea

(ITALY)

TR

(N.Z.)

Terra Nova

AL

(U.S.)

McMurdo

(AUSTRALIA)

IA N

South Pacific Ocean

Marie Byrd Land

80

ilk

Amundsen Sea

Ross Ice Shelf

es

Lan

Shackleton Ice Shelf

Casey

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