ANTARCTIC REGION

30

Port Elizabeth

SOUTH 30
AFRICA

South Atlantic
Ocean

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

Anta
rctic
Con
verg

40

enc
e

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS

(SOUTH AFRICA)

50

South Georgia and

South Sandwich Islands

BRITISH
CLAIM

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

Southern
Ocean

Orcadas
(ARGENTINA)
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

French Southern
and Antarctic Lands

SANAE IV

Neumayer

(SOUTH
AFRICA)

(GERMANY)

Novolazarevskaya
(RUSSIA)

(FRANCE)

Maitri
(INDIA)

SOUTH
SHETLAND
ISLANDS

Ushuaia

area of
enlargement

Drake
Passage

Molodezhnaya

Queen Maud Land

Halley (U.K.)

Weddell Sea

Belgrano II
(ARGENTINA)

CHILE

CHILEAN
CLAIM

Bellingshausen
Sea

Zhong Shan(CHINA)
Progress (RUSSIA)

Davis(AUSTRALIA)

Indian

(U.S.)

South Pole
2800 m.

Land

ilk

Ross
Ice Shelf

Amundsen
Sea

80

(U.S.)

Scott

Casey
(AUSTRALIA)

McMurdo

Shackleton
Ice Shelf

Lan

(FRANCE AND
ITALY)

es

Concordia

Marie Byrd
Land

(N.Z.)

Ross Sea
average minimum
extent of sea ice

Dumont d'Urville
70
arcti

Bernardo
O'Higgins
(CHILE)

Southern
Ocean

Ci

ZEA
LA

AN

I
AL
TR I M
S
AU CLA

60

ND C
LAIM

An

Graham
Land

30

Antarctic
Peninsula

60

Vernadsky
(UKRAINE)

70

South
Pacific
Ocean

(NEW ZEALAND)

(NEW ZEALAND)

Rothera
(U.K.)

Tasmania
Hobart

SNARES ISLANDS

Adelaide
Melbourne

(NEW ZEALAND)

NEW
ZEALAND

South Island

Canberra

Christchurch

(NEW ZEALAND)

San Martin
(ARGENTINA)

AUCKLAND ISLANDS
50

Larsen
Ice Shelf

15

ge

Campbell
Island

CHATHAM ISLANDS

Southern
Ocean

c
cti
tar
An

er
nv
Co

(AUSTRALIA)

tar

Palmer
(U.S.)

65

FRENCH
CLAIM

Macquarie Island

cti
c

62

NE
W

(FRANCE)

BALLENY
ISLANDS

Circle

66

55
rcl
e

Arturo Prat
(CHILE)

Marambio
(ARGENTINA)

Scott
Island

Ant

Esperanza
(ARGENTINA)
60

Victoria Land

64

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Poland,

Russia, South Korea, Uruguay each have
a station on King George Island.

Ocean

(RUSSIA)

(RUSSIA)

Bentley Subglacial Trench

90 E

Mirnyy

Vostok

(lowest point in Antarctica, -2540 m)

South
Pacific
Ocean

Amery Ice Shelf

Amundsen-Scott

Vinson Massif
(highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)

Peter I Island

Heard Island and

McDonald Islands

(AUSTRALIA)

(AUSTRALIA)

Ronne
Ice Shelf

Ellsworth

90 W

Mawson

Mac. Robertson
Land

80

Palmer
Land

LES
KERGUELEN

(RUSSIA)
Enderby
Land

nc
e

ARGENTINA

Syowa (JAPAN)

70

AU
ST
RA
LIA
N

Scotia Sea

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

60

undefined limit

60

ARGENTINE
CLAIM

Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)

LES
CROZET

NORWEGIAN CLAIM

12

500

0
500
1000 Miles
Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries 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 countries.

Wellington

30

CLAI
M

30

Year-round research station

AUSTRALIA

40

Sydney

180

North Island
68

64

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