Exploring the Foreign Country Exception: Federal Tort Claims in Antarctica

• Main Author: Bederman, David J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law 1988
• Subjects: tort claims; negligence; international law; Antarctica; Torts; McMurdo Sound; New Zealand; Mount Erebus; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol21/iss4/2; https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2127&context=vjtl

On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 aircraft carrying tourists bound for an expedition to Antarctica crashed into the side of Mount Erebus, the highest peak on the frozen continent. All aboard perished. Four years later, the families of some of the New Zealander skilled in the accident br...