Antarctica belongs to anyone. But many countries are angled for a piece

Antarctica is not like a place on earth.

The white continent involved researchers and scientists in a surprising, ice sensitive view for the two centuries. Countries attempted to awake and claim to Antarctica, but no one is owner.

For 65 years, Antarctica – Canadian size is one and a half times – a contract of nationalities. However, with rising geopolitical tensions and changing world order, this management system is now under pressure.

“Antarctic contract Many stresses and tensions are experiencing, probably include the worst cycle where he lives, “said Klaus Dodds, Professor at the University of Royal Holloway, London.

Fake 12 by the nation At the height of the Cold War, Antarctica contract froze the allegations of any country and maintained the continent for “science and peace.”

“Antarctic agreement is a contract of arms control, first of all,” said Dodds, and the experience in Antarcto said political geography. He said that the agreement was “incredibly important” because “this Antarctic continent and the surrounding nuclear unarmed zone.”

Carefully, for more than six decades, the agreement has worked. However, after Russia’s occupation in Ukraine in 2022 and the US President Donald Trump’s growing respect to Moscow, the growing consensus among contract members is difficult.

“Before the full occupation of Ukraine, there was a certain cooperation between the full occupation of Ukraine,” he said. “Now (north and southern) poles now have fewer cooperation.”

“Maybe a few years ago, we talked as a place for relative stability and peace and stability on the arctic.

First All-Canadian Antarctica Mission

More than 16,000 kilometers from Canada, Antarctica plays an important role in admission to the climate of the world and help global warming. Even It is already a mass change, including record-high temperatures and record-down ice levels.

Canadian Navya HMCS HMCS Margaret Brooke, an Arctic and Sea Patrol Ship, an unprecedented mission that supports a group of 15 Canadian scientists for two weeks of study last weekend.

A circular wide, which contains a navy, the South Ocean and the South Pole, is in serious conditions of how the 60th parallel works inside the South. The Antarctic agreement prohibits any military activity outside of research or research points to help research or operations.

“There is no sides of sovereignty in Antarctica. It has no authority here,” Share Teri, Commander of the Commander of the HMCS Margaret Brooke.

“I did everything possible to help support everything we look like, basically, and help us to support the piece of science, or that we have no atonement war or to help you lower all the time.”

There is no settlement outside the science bases in Antarctica. The political weight of any nation is measured in its scientific trail. More than 40 countries operate research stations and summer camps.

The MCMurdo research station in the US Ross Sea region has the largest trace mark on two other permanent databases in two polases. England, Australia, Germany and Japan also have solid Antarctic programs.

Russia has five permanent small databases and a handful of summer camp. China has invested more to invest in Antarctica, build a new modern base, build a fourth year-round station and build along with two seasons.

“It’s worth remembering that China is the reason you build five Antarctica Station. If it is prepared, as it is, or is profitable, Klaus Dodds.

Even Iran showed interest in the South Pole region. In an interview with the Iranian state-run media in 2023, the commander of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Shahranani, said he planned his country Build a permanent base there“This is not only a military work, but also the scientific work to be implemented.”

Military activity is prohibited

In 1959, in Washington, DC has survived since the management of the contract of Antarctica. However, some research databases in the Strategic South Pole region are new concerns for scientific and military purposes of technologies.

“Countries are trying to understand whether it’s none of it,” said Bloom, a global companion in Wilson center in Wilson, DC

Antarctic agreement prohibits military activity other than supports science and related Protocol on environmental protection In 1991, he forbid the intelligence for signed minerals.

“There … There is a question about whether demilitarization has a future and a mining ban,” Bloom said. “They are now and this is a very good thing.”

However, the worldview, especially in the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which supports Antarctic research, is being financed. Managers – Part of the Doge’s Efficiency of the Doge of Elon MUSC – including a general manager who returned to McMurdo station regular monthly business visits.

Scientists currently working on US stations are concerned about Trump Management will be more staff and supportIn particular, most of the work, the Trump team solves the global warming.

Others have Logic questioned Taking resources from Antarctica, taking into account the growing strategic value of an existence on the continent.

Compete on Krill

Tensions are also based on the fishing rights on the road under a related contract managed by the Antarctic Maritime Resources (CCAMLR) commission.

In the last October, China, in Australia in a CCAMLR meeting blocked the extension The main part of the South Ocean Food Internet is available for existing management measures to Krill in Antarctica.

Norway, China and South Korea are currently the best product of Chrill in Antarctica.

Russia and China vetoed the additional sea protected areas agreed in 2014. Currently, only five percent of the southern ocean are reserved.

“Countries like Chinese and Russia, on the other hand and on the other side, the hell, which is the right to fish in the areas known on the other side, dodds.

The quota restrictions are not broken, but the Kyrill industry, which uses almost a quarter of a new, traditional ship, Lynda Goldsworthy, Lynda Goldsworthy, Tasmania University, coordinates a research at the University of Sea and Antarctica.

“China has made it very clear, as they want more influential in the Antarctic Treaty System.”

“They don’t know where they want to go and how big it is. Therefore, they try to block something that will stop doing it in the future.”

‘We have to do something to protect this

Political tensions are also stepping into the ambition of Canada within the Antarctic Treaty. In 1988, he signed the contract, but to be a member of the voting for voting, the so-called Consultant Party.

Blocked, Dodds says.

“The last three or four years, the claim to be a consultant party of Canada, first of all, was blocked by Russia,” he said. This wants the Russian ally Belarus to be held in Canada and the decision to be a consensuation.

“Canada publishes more scientific work in connection with the embassy. Thus, it is a third of the concertic people. Thus, this is the absolute thrift of the justice, where the Canadian Consultant Party is not.” Dodds said.

This month, Antarctica’s expedition, cooperation with the scientists of other countries, is part of the establishment of Canadian scientific diplomacy, although cooperating with scientists.

The Science Team in the HMCS Margaret Brooke was invited to visit the Brazilian research station on Royal George Island, studying climate change on the continent.

“We are interested in withdrawal of glaciers because we have a lot of back here,” he said.

“When I come to Antarctica and see how beautiful it is, we must do something to protect the feeling.”

“Our world is mad in these days. Antarctica contract is a good example that can work. We can live a better way with peace and science.”