Claiming territorial rights in the Antarctic. The different reasons and causes behind the seven claims.

• Main Author: Domaas, Christel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Terra Australis; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13886

Exploring the land and the earth has always been in man's nature. The story of the Antarctic goes back several centuries, with sightings of a Terra Australis Incognita,1 however most of the discovery and exploration of the continent has been done in the last century. Expeditions were sent down...