Argentine Antarctic Territory
The Argentine Antarctic Territory ( Spanish : Antártida Argentina , Argentártida ) is an area of the Antarctic claimed by the State of Argentina since February 8, 1942 , which was formally taken into possession on November 8, 1942. On September 2, 1946, Argentina set the borders from 25th longitude west to 74th longitude west.
politics
When Argentina was asked by the British government in 1927 to pay royalties to operate a radio system in the South Orkney Islands , the Argentine government replied that the territory was under their sovereignty and declined the request. However, a formal claim to territory was not made until 1946. The part of Antarctica claimed by Argentina is overlaid by Chilean and British claims.
Argentina regards the Antarctic Territory as one of the four departamentos of the Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida Argentina e Islas del Atlántico Sur ( Tierra del Fuego, Argentine Antarctica and Islands of the South Atlantic ).
The Argentine claim, like the claims of other states, is not recognized by the international community. Possible conflicts over territorial claims in the Antarctic were prevented by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, which grants all interested nations free access for research purposes and, due to the additional protocols concluded in the following period, excludes economic exploitation by mining.
Argentina operates six stations in the Antarctic and seven stations that are only manned in the Antarctic summer (as of 2017). The Marambio Station was declared the Argentine seat of government for one month in August 1973 to support claims to the territory.
population
According to the last October 2010 (winter) census, the territory had 230 residents in six permanent stations, including nine families and 16 children:
- Marambio station 75
- Esperanza Station 66
- Carlini station 33
- San Martín Station 20
- Belgrano II station 19
- Orcadas Station 17
See also
literature
- John May: The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica . Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1991, ISBN 3-473-46166-0 , p. 115 .
Web links
- Sector Antártico Argentino: Historia: La Actividad Argentina en la Antártida ( Memento of January 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). History of the Territory (Spanish).
- Dirección Nacional del Antártico - Instituto Antártico Argentino (Spanish).
- Bases Argentinas en la Antártida. Interactive map of all Argentine Antarctic stations (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Argentina. Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur. In: World Statesmen.org. Retrieved January 14, 2017 (English).
Coordinates: 75 ° 0 ′ S , 65 ° 0 ′ W