The Proclamation Island moment: making Antarctica Australian

• Main Author: Collis, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Territory; New Zealand; Norway; Proclamation Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol8/iss1/3; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114&context=ltc

This article begins with a statement, and with a scene. The statement is a reasonably straightforward one: Australia claims 42 per cent of the distant offshore continent of Antarctica as its national territory. Or, to make this article’s governing statement speak directly to the themes of this issue...