Maps Of The World Antarctic

Citation preview

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 (ARGENTINA)

(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.)

Bernardo O'Higgins (CHILE)

55

Southern Ocean

rcl Ci

W

ZEA

LAN

AN

I AL T R AI M S AU CL

60

D CLA IM

An tar cti

Graham Land Palmer (U.S.) Vernadsky (UKRAINE)

65

50

30

Rothera (U.K.)

c

South Pacific Ocean

Tasmania Hobart

SNARES ISLANDS

San Martin (ARGENTINA)

Adelaide Melbourne

(NEW ZEALAND)

NEW ZEALAND

South Island

Canberra

Christchurch

(NEW ZEALAND)

0

c ti

ge

AUCKLAND ISLANDS (NEW ZEALAND)

60

Larsen Ice Shelf

15

ta r

er nv

Campbell Island

CHATHAM ISLANDS 70

An

Co

(AUSTRALIA)

(NEW ZEALAND)

Antarctic Peninsula

Southern Ocean

FRENCH CLAIM

Macquarie Island

c

62

NE

(FRANCE)

BALLENY ISLANDS

Circle

66

Marambio (ARGENTINA)

c

Scott Island

0

arcti

e

Ant

nc

64

Dumont d'Urville

e

Arturo Prat (CHILE)

Victoria Land 70

Esperanza (ARGENTINA) 60

AU S

Ross Sea average minimum extent of sea ice

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Uruguay each have a station on King George Island.

Ocean

(RUSSIA)

(RUSSIA)

Bentley Subglacial Trench

90 E

Mirnyy

Vostok

(lowest point in Antarctica, -2540 m)

South Pacific Ocean

Amery Ice Shelf

Amundsen-Scott

Vinson Massif (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m)

Peter I Island

(AUSTRALIA)

Ronne Ice Shelf

Ellsworth

90 W

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

(AUSTRALIA)

Wellington

12

CHILEAN CLAIM

Mawson

Mac. Robertson Land

80

Palmer Land

ÎLES KERGUELEN

(RUSSIA) Enderby Land

30

Ushuaia

60

undefined limit

SANAE IV

Neumayer

SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

ARGENTINA

ÎLES CROZET

NORWEGIAN CLAIM

60

ARGENTINE CLAIM

Scotia Sea

(SOUTH AFRICA)

BRITISH CLAIM

(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)

(administered by U.K., claimed by ARGENTINA)

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS 50

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

40

c C onv erg enc e

M

500

IA N

500

0

AL

0

C L AI

30

Year-round research station

AUSTRALIA

40

Sydney

180

North Island 68

64

803121AI (R02207) 3-05