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Table of content Table of content What is the Antarctic land conflict

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● Seven countries (Argentina,

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Australia, Chile, France, New
What is the Antarctica When did the Who was involved in Additional
Antarctica land dispute? conflict begin? the conflict? Questions
Zealand, Norway, and the United
Kingdom) maintain territorial claims

Land Dispute What is the in Antarctica

When did it begin

● The United States and most other
Antarctic land countries do not recognize those
Perspectives of the conflict?
j claims.
● So while the United States maintains
By: Maskeen, Varsigaa, different groups What are the impacts Solutions of the
a basis to claim territory in
Brianna involved of the conflict land conflict Antarctica, it has not made a claim.
● Causing conflict land overlap also ( This image is a picture of Antarctica)
caused a fight

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When Did The Conflict begin Who was involved? Different Group Perspectives

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● In the beginning there were a whole

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bunch of countries trying to claim

Who was
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● The land dispute began Antarctica
when the Antarctic treaty ● In total there were about eight or nine
France Norway and Chile
involved in the What is the impact
system was formed on Dec countries ; Argentina, Australia, Chile,

Different Group
1st but put in action on the France, New Zealand, Norway, and the
23rd of june 1961 United Kingdom
● Settlement was formed for
multiple reasons conflict ● Each country wanted a Particular part
of Antarctica
Perspectives Australia and
of the conflict
● It was made/established as ● Australia has 42% of Antarctica which is
a xone free of nuclear tests the largest amount claimed Argentina New Zealand
and radioactive waste ● Countries started to overlap
disposal . ; As you can see Argentina and the - As you can see the green indicates
United Kingdom overlapped the overlapping as its a mix of the
dark green and pink
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Impacts
● Impacts of the conflict consist of
many reasons such as having to
save Antarctica, territorial claims 05
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Solutions
The solution that's working for the land
conflict is the Antarctic Treaty, there
hasn’t been that many problems with the
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Solutions (Cont’d)
● The Treaty is very brief but

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incredibly e_ective; it covers
the region south of 60°
South latitude.
Additional Questions
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Why did many countries want to
claim Antarctica?
Each nation has its reasons for

Solutions of the
Antartica land dispute in a while.

Additional
overlapping, Antarctic treaty. establishing a claim; the
● All the chemicals used also ● The 12 nations that had joined the IGY ● With this agreement, the primary reasons were their
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impacted Global warming making it signed the Antarctic Treaty in Washington nations having interests in participation in early

land conflict Questions

worse it caused planet wide impact on December 1st, 1959. (Argentina, exploration, an ongoing
Antarctica consult on the
as so many countries are using so Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, existence in Antarctica,
usage of the entire continent
many harmful chemicals. New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, geographical location or
United Kingdom, United States ). while promising that it won't
geological connections
be the source or focus of
international conflict.

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