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unusual facts about Antarctic Treaty



Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen

However, the Antarctic Treaty defines Antarctica as any territory located South of the 60th parallel, which excludes South Georgia.


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Jarle Andhøy

In January 2012, the New Zealand Customs Service mounted a search for the sailing yacht Nilaya, after the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the Antarctic Treaty parties that it suspected that Andhøy and Massie would again sail to Antarctica illegally.

Law-Racoviţă Station

After two years of negotiations, during the 2005 meeting of the Antarctic Treaty in Stockholm, an agreement was signed through which Australia donated to the Romanian Antarctic Foundation and the Romanian Institute for Polar Research one of their research stations on the east coast of Antarctica, Law Station, which was renamed Law-Racoviță Station, after Romanian explorer Emil Racoviță and placed under the directorship of Negoiță.