Explainer: what any country can and can't do in Antarctica, in the name of science
- Written by Julia Jabour, Leader, Ocean and Antarctic Governance Research Program, University of Tasmania
In Antarctica, many countries want a piece of the action.Flickr/Christopher Michel, CC BY
Antarctica is owned by no one, but there are plenty of countries interested in this frozen island continent at the bottom of the Earth.
While there are some regulations on who can do what there, scientific research has no definition in Antarctic law. So any...
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