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ANTARCTIC REGION 30
Port Elizabeth
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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
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