Sovereignty and the Antarctic Treaty

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Rothwell, Donald R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Endeavour; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740999026x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740999026X

Sovereignty was and still remains one of the principal reasons for human endeavour in Antarctica. The ‘Heroic Era’ of Antarctic exploration was designed principally to seek out not only new lands including the South Pole, but also to assert territorial claims on behalf of the sovereign who sponsored...