ANTARCTIC REGION 30 30 0 Port Elizabeth SOUTH 30 Year-round research station AFRICA Scale 1:68,000,000 S o u t h A t l a n t i c Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 0 500 1000 Kilometers O c e a n 40 Anta rctic 0 500 1000 Miles Co nve Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries have rge nc made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and e the United States have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other countries. Bouvet Island (NORWAY) PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS 50 (SOUTH AFRICA) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands BRITISH (administered by U.K., CLAIM claimed by ARGENTINA) ÎLES Southern CROZET Ocean NORWEGIAN CLAIM ARGENTINE undefined limit 60 Falkland Islands CLAIM 60 (Islas Malvinas) Orcadas (administered by U.K., Scotia Sea SANAE IV French Southern claimed by ARGENTINA) (ARGENTINA) Neumayer (SOUTH Novolazarevskaya and Antarctic Lands SOUTH ORKNEY (GERMANY) AFRICA) (RUSSIA) ISLANDS (FRANCE) Maitri Syowa (JAPAN) SOUTH (INDIA) 70 SHETLAND area of Molodezhnaya ARGENTINA ÎLES Ushuaia ISLANDS enlargement Queen Maud Land (RUSSIA) Enderby KERGUELEN Drake Halley(U.K.) Land Passage Weddell Sea Belgrano II (ARGENTINA) Mawson Heard Island and CHILE Mac. Robertson (AUSTRALIA) 80 Land McDonald Islands Palmer (AUSTRALIA) Land Ronne Ice Shelf Amery Ice Shelf Zhong Shan(CHINA) CHILEAN Progress(RUSSIA) Davis(AUSTRALIA) CLAIM Bellingshausen Sea Ellsworth I n d i a n Vinson Massif Amundsen-Scott 90 W (U.S.) 90 E Peter I Island (highest point in Antarctica, 4897 m) South Pole Mirnyy Land 2800 m. Vostok (RUSSIA) O c e a n (RUSSIA) Bentley Subglacial Trench d (lowest point in Antarctica, -2540 m) n Shackleton a Concordia Ice Shelf M Marie Byrd I (FRANCE AND L S o u t h Land A ITALY) L Ross s C e P a c i f i c Ice Shelf Amundsen Casey k 80 l Sea (AUSTRALIA) N O c e a n i McMurdo A W I Scott (U.S.) L (N.Z.) A R Ross Sea T S average minimum U extent of sea ice Victoria Land A Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Poland, Dumont d'Urville Russia, South Korea, Uruguay each have 64 70 (FRANCE) a station on King George Island. Anta Scott rctic Island Esperanza Circle BALLENY (ARGENTINA) ISLANDS e 120 FRENCH c n 60 e Marambio g 66 Southern N CLAIM r A ve Arturo Prat (ARGENTINA) I n Bernardo N AL o (CHILE) E Ocean R C O'Higgins 55 W T IM tic Z US A rc (CHILE) EA A CL ta LAN 60 An D CL AIM Circle 62 Macquarie Island (AUSTRALIA) rctic Campbell Graham Anta S o u t h Island (NEW ZEALAND) AUCKLAND ISLANDS 65 Palmer Land P a c i f i c (NEW ZEALAND) Tasmania (U.S.) 60 Vernadsky 50 Hobart (UKRAINE) O c e a n Antarctic SNARES ISLANDS Larsen (NEW ZEALAND) Adelaide 30 Ice Shelf Melbourne 30 Peninsula NEW ZEALAND South Island CHATHAM ISLANDS Canberra (NEW ZEALAND) Christchurch Southern Wellington 70 San Martin 40 A U S T R A L I A (ARGENTINA) 180 Sydney Ocean 150 Rothera (U.K.) North Island 803412AI (R02207) 6-09 64 68.