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Two countries close to Antarctica, Chile and Argentina, are not signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and have territorial claims. Both of these countries already
by planteen 10y ago
Two countries close to Antarctica, Chile and Argentina, are not signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and have territorial claims. Both of these countries already have a decent amount of natural resource extraction (especially Chile), so one would reason that if it is worth mining, they would be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory
One could also look at the interior of Greenland, which is Danish territory. No serious development of any kind occurs there - it's all along the coasts.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoEr, Chile and Argentina are original Treaty (1959) signatories, and dispute at least some of Britain and France's claims, and vice versa. The treaty sets aside territorial claims whilst it's in force. All the claims for all countries are still there, just neutered.
- planteen 10y agoYou are right. Not sure how I missed that