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ANTARCTIC REGION 30 Port Elizabeth 0 SOUTH 30 AFRICA South Atlantic Ocean Scale 1:68,000,000 Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 1000 Kilometers Anta r c ti 1000 Miles Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations. Bouvet Island (NORWAY) Southern Ocean Orcadas (SOUTH AFRICA) (GERMANY) French Southern and Antarctic Lands Novolazarevskaya (RUSSIA) (FRANCE) Maitri (INDIA) SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS area of enlargement Drake Passage Syowa (JAPAN) 70 Molodezhnaya Queen Maud Land Halley (U.K.) Weddell Sea Belgrano II (ARGENTINA) CHILE Bellingshausen Sea Zhong Shan(CHINA) Progress (RUSSIA) Davis(AUSTRALIA) Indian (U.S.) South Pole 2800 m. Land d ilk Ross Ice Shelf Amundsen Sea 80 (U.S.) Scott Casey (AUSTRALIA) W McMurdo Shackleton Ice Shelf Lan (FRANCE AND ITALY) es Concordia Marie Byrd Land TR (N.Z.) arcti Bernardo O'Higgins (CHILE) 55 Southern Ocean Ci rcl W ZEA LAN AN I AL T R AI M S AU CL 60 D CLA IM cti tar 65 50 30 Rothera (U.K.) South Pacific Ocean Tasmania Hobart San Martin (ARGENTINA) Adelaide Melbourne (NEW ZEALAND) NEW ZEALAND South Island Canberra<