Thread 214737698

hey france, can you fuck off?

No, you

Why do we only get a tiny shitty part although our rock is closer? We should get all of Australia’s slice.

>>214737813
This, I never fancied those pretzel eaters anyway

>>214737698 (OP)

We de facto run this whole shit and we have reserved, THOUGH not exercised, our rights. No need. You all know the score.

It's funny how the Brit claim is a superset of the Argentinian claim, totally enclosing it: "No U but MORE". Actually, the set intersection around that region's claims is interesting. Clockwise from 9:00:

Arg only
Chi AND UK, NOT Arg
Arg AND Chi AND UK
Arg AND UK, NOT Chi
UK only

>>214737990
You have 0 sq. km in Antarctica. Shut the fuck up. It’s game over for you.

>>214737698 (OP)
Does this shit even mean anything

>>214737990
Even weirder is the massive unclaimed bit right next to it. Can I just sail down there and plant a flag and it's mine?

>>214738123
Australians go there for tourism. I haven't, but I've known a guy who did.
It's pretty shit tho, it's more something you do so you can tick off your bucket list and tell people you've been to antarctica

>uk
>norway
>france
Why

Shartentina trying to steal our land again....fucking c*lonisers.

>>214738096

Occupying the South Pole, the one point connnecting all claims (well, except maybe the goofy Norwegian one) makes us the De Facto captital of every single one of your legal fictions.

>>214738161
The 'nakis ain't gonna like you trying that, chief.

>>214737813
I hear the Australia = Austria joke at least once a day
t. Australian living in Austria

>>214738096
Fixed it.

>>214738096
lol we literally control not just the biggest settlement but also the geographic south pole.
>b-but muh meme claims
lol.

>>214738161

That's the part that's adjacent to the Southern/Pacific ocean. A few thousand miles north is Point Nemo, the oceanic point furthest from any land. The ocean where they de-orbit spacecraft, well, except when bits of Skylab accidentally hit Australia, sorry about that desu. The point being that it isn't even close to anything at all. At least the peninsula is proximal to /csg/ and for political reasons they've made sure that a few babies were actually born there, for legitimacy appearances.

The other piece of Terra Nullius on Earth is Bir Tawil, between Sudan and Egypt. But even though neither party claims the territory, they have also worked together (IIRC) to prevent idiots from taking up occupancy or declaring anything even resembling a credible state. Of course, Marie Byrd Land is uninhabitable but perhaps the competing (real) countries would work together to prevent or expel anyone who might attempt a settlement there, for similar reasons. Or maybe some private venture sets up shop there and the countries leave them alone because large companies are more powerful than states these days.

>>214737698 (OP)
>only irrelevant countries lay claim to the wasteland
If the time ever came where resources were discovered and needed to be claimed, it would be under the dominion of a superpower like the united states or china.

>>214738696
Just like Greenland right?

>>214738347
>>214738446
your mutt station is not on the exact south pole. and it drifts over 10 meters a year

>>214738766

Very poor analogy, because Greenland is 1) under Danish sovereignty and consequently 2) strategic NATO clay while 3) proximal to NATO itself, almost a central point, really. It's in everyone's backyard so a hard power flex there would be disastrous. Not so in Antarctica, where an 800-pound gorilla (whether the US or China) can throw its weight around if it really wants to, if push comes to shove.

Trump's push for both Greenland to "just join us" is/was strategic and, even though he went about it in a silly way, still basically correct, inasmuch as he recognizes, correctly, that we need to compete with Russia in the arctic, where the Russians have been carefully building up their infrastructure.

>>214737698 (OP)
I thought Russia has a piece too?

>>214738802
How many outposts does Brazil have in Antarctica?

Who cares about the south pole. We own the north which is way cooler and that's where Santa lives.

>>214738914

Strangely, no. We both have the same status: we have many relevant bases, we have both signed the treaty, neither of us has an official claim, but we have both reserved our right to make one in the future.

The claims are an outgrowth of 19th century colonialism, which gradually gave way to 20th century wartime considerations. By the time of the treaty, the main idea was to avoid nuclear war on the continent, which would probably be very bad for everybody. In principle, sort of like outer space, it's a special hostile environment for peaceful exploration, but of course the minute anyone discovers anything really valuable in either place (oil, diamonds etc) that's all out the door. The antarctic and various space treaties tacitly assume that both places really have low value for humans, which may not be true.

>>214738922

There are something like 50-70 permanent stations IIRC, and the summer population of the continent is like a few thousand people (many concentrated in McMurdo and other major bases), and it dips down to like a thousand or so for those who winter over. Here's the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctica#Permanent_active_stations

>>214737698 (OP)
>unclaimed
united settlements of antartica when?

>>214738390
do you run a kangaroo farm?

>>214738922
One.

>>214737698 (OP)
Antarctica in its entirety belongs to us

>>214739237
Damm even your research bases are filthy and look like a three year old picked out all the colors for them