Britain and Antarctica: keeping the economic dimension in its place

• Main Author: Beck, Peter J.
• Other Authors: Fisher, John, Pedaliu, Effie G.H., Smith, Richard
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2016
• Subjects: Economics and econometrics; History; Politics and international studies; Antarctic; British Antarctic Territory; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/37771/

Britain’s vast worldwide empire upon which the sun never set is no more, but there remains still a substantial area of the earth’s surface covered by 14 British Overseas Territories. British Antarctic Territory, the last one to be claimed (1908, 1917), is by far the largest of these territories tota...