Appendix: Sovereignty in Antarctica 
ARGENTINA | 
Area of Claim. 74° W. to 25° W. 
Date of Claim. None 
Remarks. The Argentine Government has not made a formal declara- 
tion of claims to Antarctic territory because it regards the ‘“‘Argentine 
Antarctic” as an area which has belonged to the republic since its founda- 
tion. The Argentine claim is included within the area claimed by the 
United Kingdom, and from 70° W. to 53° W. overlaps the Chilean claim. 
On July 12, 1947, the foreign ministers of Argentina and Chile issued a 
joint declaration indicating their “desire to arrive as soon as possible at 
the conclusion of a Treaty between Argentina and Chile, regarding the 
demarcation of boundaries in the South American Antarctic.” No such 
treaty has as yet been concluded. Considerable diplomatic correspondence 
has also accrued between the Governments of Argentina and the United 
Kingdom with the issue of the Antarctic being complicated by its connec- 
tion with an older dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. 
Relevant Documents. Excerpt from a note addressed to the British 
Ambassador in Buenos Aires by the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs 
and Worship, 27 February 1952. 
In paragraphs 5 and 6 of your excellency’s Note No. 31, reference is made to 
the embassy’s Note No. 180 of 30 April 1951; and details are once more given of 
the titles on which Her Majesty’s Government consider their rights in Antarctica 
to be based. ‘The above-mentioned Note was answered by this ministry in their 
Note No. 876 of 1 July 1951, and the supposed rights of the United Kingdom 
were the subject of this and earlier communications. I now repeat the views set 
forth in these communications and reaffirm once again the unquestionable rights 
of the Argentine Republic to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South 
Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the antarctic sector bounded by longs. 
25° and 74° W., south of lat. 60° S. 
AUSTRALIA 
Area of Claim. 45° E. to 136° E. and 142° E. to 160° E. 
Date of Claim. 1936 
Remarks. Although Australia had been active in British expeditions to 
the Antarctic even before the foundation of the Commonwealth (1908) 
and Sir Douglas Mawson led an Australasian (1911-14) and later a com- 
bined British-Australian-New Zealand expedition (1929-31) to the con- 
tinent, Australia put forward no formal claim until 1933. In that year an 
Order in Council transferred the area of the present Australian claim to 
the Commonwealth Government contingent upon acceptance by the 
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