ANTARCTIC REGION 30
Port Elizabeth
0
SOUTH 30 AFRICA
South Atlantic Ocean
Scale 1:68,000,000 Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 1000 Kilometers
Anta r c ti
1000 Miles
Twenty-one of 28 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.
Bouvet Island (NORWAY)
Southern Ocean
Orcadas
(SOUTH AFRICA)
(GERMANY)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Novolazarevskaya (RUSSIA)
(FRANCE)
Maitri (INDIA)
SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS
area of enlargement
Drake Passage
Syowa (JAPAN)
70
Molodezhnaya
Queen Maud Land Halley (U.K.)
Weddell Sea
Belgrano II (ARGENTINA)
CHILE
Bellingshausen Sea
Zhong Shan(CHINA) Progress (RUSSIA)
Davis(AUSTRALIA)
Indian
(U.S.)
South Pole 2800 m.
Land
d
ilk
Ross Ice Shelf
Amundsen Sea
80
(U.S.)
Scott
Casey (AUSTRALIA)
W
McMurdo
Shackleton Ice Shelf
Lan
(FRANCE AND ITALY)
es
Concordia
Marie Byrd Land
TR
(N.Z.)
arcti
Bernardo O'Higgins (CHILE)
55
Southern Ocean
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W
ZEA
LAN
AN
I AL T R AI M S AU CL
60
D CLA IM
cti tar
65
50
30
Rothera (U.K.)
South Pacific Ocean
Tasmania Hobart
San Martin (ARGENTINA)
Adelaide Melbourne
(NEW ZEALAND)
NEW ZEALAND
South Island
Canberra
Christchurch
(NEW ZEALAND)
0
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SNARES ISLANDS
Larsen Ice Shelf
15
c ti
ge
AUCKLAND ISLANDS (NEW ZEALAND)
60
CHATHAM ISLANDS 70
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er nv
Campbell Island (NEW ZEALAND)
Antarctic Peninsula
Southern Ocean
An
Co
(AUSTRALIA)
An
Graham Land Palmer (U.S.) Vernadsky (UKRAINE)
FRENCH CLAIM
Macquarie Island
c
62
NE
(FRANCE)
BALLENY ISLANDS
Circle
66
Marambio (ARGENTINA)
c
Scott Island
e
Ant
nc
64
Dumont d'Urville
e
Arturo Prat (CHILE)
Victoria Land 70
Esperanza (ARGENTINA) 60
AU S
Ross Sea average minimum extent of sea ice
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
(AUSTRALIA)
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ellsworth
90 W
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
(AUSTRALIA)
Wellington
12 0
CHILEAN CLAIM
Mawson
Mac. Robertson Land
80
Palmer Land
ÎLES KERGUELEN
(RUSSIA) Enderby Land
30
Ushuaia
60
undefined limit
SANAE IV
Neumayer
(ARGENTINA) SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS
ARGENTINA
ÎLES CROZET
NORWEGIAN CLAIM
60
ARGENTINE CLAIM
Scotia Sea
(SOUTH AFRICA)
BRITISH CLAIM
(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)
PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS 50
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
40
c C onv erg enc e
M
500
IA N
500
0
AL
0
C L AI
30
Year-round research station
AUSTRALIA
40
Sydney
180
North Island 68
64
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