and the Ross Dependency. In British eyes, the status of the former had 
been fixed by letters patent of 1908 and 1917 and of the latter by the Order 
in Council of July 30, 1923. The areas discussed were along the coast 
between 20° W. and 160° E., the bulk of them in the present Australian 
claim; some, to which the British have apparently relinquished their rights, 
are in the Norwegian claim. The alleged titles were based upon prior 
discovery. 
Relevant documents. Excerpt from Imperial Conference, 1926: Sum- 
mary of Proceedings. 
The official summary of the proceedings of the British Imperial Conference 
of 1926 contains the following list of areas in the Antarctic “to which a British 
title already exists by virtue of discovery: 
“(i.) The outlying part of Coats Land, viz., the portion not comprised within 
the Falkland Islands Dependencies. 
(ii.) Enderby Land. 
(iii.) Kemp Land. 
(iv.) Queen Mary Land. 
(v.) The area which lies to the west of Adelie Land and which on its discov- 
ery by the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1912 was denominated Wilkes 
Land. 
(vi.) King George V Land. 
(vii.) Oates Land.” 
CHILE 
Area of Claim. 90° W. to 53° W. 
Date of Claim. 1940 
Remarks. The Chilean claim was put forward as the result of a study 
of Chilean rights in the Antarctic authorized by the Government in 1939. 
Chile recognizes the sector principle and its claim, therefore, runs to the 
South Pole. East of 80° W., the Chilean claim overlaps that of the United 
Kingdom, and east of 74° W. that of Argentina as well. On July 12, 1947, 
the foreign ministers of Argentina and Chile issued a joint declaration of 
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 con- 
cluded. 
Relevant documents. 
CHILEAN DECREE No. 1747 OF 6 NOVEMBER 1940 
WHEREAS: 
It is the duty of the State, to fix, with exactitude, its territorial limits; 
Up to the present the Chilean territorial limits in the Southern Polar region 
known as the American Antarctic have not been determined; 
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs publicly declared in 1906 that the delimita- 
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