ANTARCTIC REGION
30
1000 Kilometers
Anta
r c ti
1000 Miles
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.
Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)
(RUSSIA)
Neumayer
(GERMANY)
area of
enlargement
Maitri
(INDIA)
(FRANCE)
70
Weddell Sea
Belgrano II
(ARGENTINA)
Indian
(U.S.)
South Pole
2800 m.
Land
(RUSSIA)
Lan
(U.S.)
(N.Z.)
AU
S
(ITALY)
64
Victoria Land
Dumont d'Urville
70
arcti
c
Esperanza
(ARGENTINA)
55
rcl
Ci
W
ZEA
(FRANCE)
BALLENY
ISLANDS
Southern
Ocean
LAN
AN
I
AL
T R AI M
S
AU CL
60
D CLA
IM
tar
ct
Campbell
Island
(NEW ZEALAND)
50
30
15
0
Rothera
(U.K.)
c
South
Pacific
Ocean
San Martin
(ARGENTINA)
Tasmania
Hobart
Adelaide
Melbourne
(NEW ZEALAND)
(NEW ZEALAND)
NEW
ZEALAND
Wellington
South Island
Canberra
Christchurch
40
180
Sydney
AUSTRALIA
North Island
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68
64
70
c ti
SNARES ISLANDS
Larsen
Ice Shelf
CHATHAM ISLANDS
Southern
Ocean
ta r
ge
AUCKLAND ISLANDS
(NEW ZEALAND)
60
Antarctic
Peninsula
An
er
nv
Co
(AUSTRALIA)
An
Graham
Land
Palmer
(U.S.)
Vernadsky
(UKRAINE)
FRENCH
CLAIM
Macquarie Island
ic
62
NE
Scott
Island
Circle
66
Marambio
(ARGENTINA)
e
Bernardo
O'Higgins
(CHILE)
TR
Terra Nova
average minimum
extent of sea ice
Ant
Casey
(AUSTRALIA)
W
McMurdo
Scott
60
ilk
80
Ross Sea
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Poland,
Russia, South Korea, Uruguay each have
a station on King George Island.
Shackleton
Ice Shelf
es
Ross
Ice Shelf
Amundsen
Sea
Ocean
(RUSSIA)
Vostok
+
Bentley Subglacial Trench
Marie Byrd
Land
90 E
Mirnyy
(lowest point in Anarctica, -2540 m)
South
Pacific
Ocean
Davis(AUSTRALIA)
Amundsen-Scott
+
Vinson Massif
(highest point in Anarctica, 4897 m)
Peter I Island
(AUSTRALIA)
Amery Ice Shelf
Zhong Shan(CHINA)
Progress (RUSSIA)
Ellsworth
Heard Island and
McDonald Islands
12
0
90 W
Ronne
Ice Shelf
Mawson
(AUSTRALIA)
M
Bellingshausen
Sea
Mac. Robertson
Land
80
C L AI
CHILEAN
CLAIM
ÎLES
KERGUELEN
(RUSSIA)
Enderby
Land
Halley (U.K.)
Palmer
Land
65
Molodezhnaya
Queen Maud Land
CHILE
Arturo Prat
(CHILE)
Syowa (JAPAN)
IA N
Drake
Passage
French Southern
and Antarctic Lands
Novolazarevskaya
AL
Ushuaia
60
(SOUTH
AFRICA)
SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS
ARGENTINA
60
undefined limit
SANAE
Orcadas
(ARGENTINA)
SOUTH
SHETLAND
ISLANDS
ÎLES
CROZET
NORWEGIAN CLAIM
30
Southern
Ocean
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
e
500
nc
500
0
SOUTH 30
AFRICA
South Atlantic
Ocean
Scale 1:68,000,000
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
0
Port Elizabeth
0
d
30
Year-round research station