acter of oceanic activities is reflected in the increasing interest in 

 marine activities of many United Nations agencies, such as the United 

 Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Intergovern- 

 mental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educa- 

 tional, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 



At the 1966 United Nations General Asembly, U.S. initiatives re- 

 sulted in the adoption of a resolution requesting the Secretary General 

 to survey international cooperative activities related to marine science, 

 technology, and marine resources. This two-year survey will examine 

 the mechanisms for preventing duplication and for increasing co- 

 ordination among international organizations concerned with marine 

 activities. In some respects, this study on an international scale is 

 analogous to those leading to the recent Marine Sciences Act on a 

 national scale. 



In 1966, the General Assembly endorsed a proposal of the United 

 Nations Committee on Outer Space for a group of experts to examine 

 the international requirements for navigation satellites. The accurate 

 positioning of oceanographic stations is an important aspect of any 

 cooperative ship-survey program, and the potential of navigation 

 satellites to improve the precision of station locations was demon- 

 strated by several U.S. oceanographic ships equipped with the Navy- 

 developed receiving equipment. 



Our support of the activities of the many United Nations agencies 

 concerned with marine activities, and our initiatives to promote co- 

 operation through these agencies are becoming more important. The 

 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, for example, is play- 

 ing an increasingly active role in promoting international expeditions, 

 data exchanges, radio frequency allocations for oceanographic research 

 activities, and an international tsunami warning system in the Pacific 

 Ocean. The World Meteorological Organization coordinates the ex- 

 change of marine weather data between nations and is in the process 

 of developing the World Weather Watch. Other international or- 

 ganizations concerned with marine sciences are indicated in Table VII. 



Polar Exploration 



Antarctica remains a symbol of successful cooperation among coun- 

 tries having potentially conflicting political interests and a model of 

 international arrangements for the benefit of all najtions. The ex- 

 perience of Antarctic cooperation deserves study to determine whether 

 it can be extrapolated to areas of the seas beyond polar regions. 



Our Arctic Research Laboratory in Alaska continues to welcome 

 scientists of other countries. Oceanographic data collected from ice 



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