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Australia and the Antarctic Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Marcus Haward
Marcus Haward*
Affiliation:
School of Government and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Australia ([email protected])
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Australia has extensive interests in, and has taken a long term interest over, Antarctica. These interests include a territorial claim to the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) encompassing 42 per cent of the continent. In addition to its interests as a claimant state Australian participated in the negotiation of the Antarctic Treaty and has devoted itself to a major role in the Antarctic Treaty system (ATS), firmly committing to upholding the twin pillars of the Treaty: ‘peace’ and ‘science’.

Type
50 years on: invited reflections on the Antarctic Treaty
Information
Polar Record , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 11 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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