Transnational Issues Antarctica

Disputes - international:

Antarctic Treaty freezes claims (see Antarctic Treaty Summary in

Government type entry); sections (some overlapping) claimed by

Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, NZ, Norway, and UK; the US and

most other states do not recognize the territorial claims of other

states and have made no claims themselves (the US and Russia reserve

the right to do so); no claims have been made in the sector between

90 degrees west and 150 degrees west; several states with land

claims in Antarctica have expressed their intention to submit data

to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to

extend their continental shelf claims to adjoining undersea ridges

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