Defense officials from Chile convened a meeting at the bottom of the planet on Thursday in a bid to bolster their territorial claims in Antarctica as tensions escalate over Russia's maneuvers in ...

In total, there have been eight territorial claims made in regards to Antarctica by seven sovereign states, dating all the way back to the early 1900s. The nations with established — and in some ...

maintain a basis to claim territory in Antarctica, despite not having done so; some of those, such as Brazil and Ecuador, have even marked out the sections of the map they’re hoping to grab.

Map: The Economist Seven countries, including Britain, Argentina, Australia and Norway, have territorial claims over the Antarctic. The carve-up of the continent reflects the world of the early ...

The southernmost continent of Earth is known as Antarctica. Surrounded by the Southern Ocean on all sides, it is located in the far Southern Hemisphere. The South Pole, which is also located in ...

Russia's Novolazarevskya runway A Russian first deputy prime minister said this week that Russia has no territorial claims to Antarctica, and will strictly abide by an international convention on ...

The Instagram video includes a map of Antarctica that shows a ... basis to make a claim if it chooses to. However, no territorial claims in Antarctica are recognized under the Antarctic Treaty ...

Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent.

According to documents discussed in U.K. parliament last week, the discovery was made by Russian research ships in the Weddell Sea, which falls under the U.K.'s claim in Antarctic territory.

The Antarctic Treaty has kept the southernmost continent free of weapons, borders and mines for more than 65 years. But with US President Donald Trump’s record of pulling out of global ...