This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another
A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.
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Antarctica Day celebrates the signature of the Antarctic Treaty, 1st December 1959
Antarctica Day was inaugurated in 2010 to celebrate the 1st December 1959 signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which was adopted “with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind.” ...
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Antarctic research has long been hamstrung by reliance on one icebreaker and sporadic funding. That might be about to change
Territory, here, doesn’t mean exclusive rights. In 1959, 12 nations with a scientific interest in the ice continent signed the Antarctic Treaty. This treaty was an agreement that Antarctica ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
Iran declares Antarctica its property in direct challenge to Biden, global treaty
The Antarctic Treaty (which became effective in 1961) has a specific provision that no action by any nation after 1961 can be ...
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700 people were scammed by the promise of citizenship of an invented country in Antarctica
The criminal network made believe that this nation existed with autonomous sovereignty and privileges “by virtue of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959” and took care of the procedures for granting ...
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Antarctic dinosaur exhibit opens at Omaha's Durham Museum
IN CLINIC NEXT SATURDAY. A SNOWY MORNING HERE SET THE TONE FOR THE DURHAM MUSEUM’S NEW ANTARCTIC DINOSAURS EXHIBIT. THE EXHIBIT FEATURES LIFE SIZED DINOSAUR REPLICAS. VISITORS LEARNED HOW THE ...
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Balancing with Antarctica
Antarctica wasn’t always there, at the bottom of the Earth. Over one billion years ago it was in the Northern Hemisphere, ...
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EXPERT REACTION: Report on Australia’s relationship with the Antarctic Treaty System
The Australian Parliament has released a report on Australia’s relationship with the Antarctic Treaty System. 'Australia’s Antarctic Territory: Report on the Inquiry into the Importance of Antarctica ...