Brazilian Antarctica ( or ''Antártica Brasileira'') is the
Antarctic
The Antarctic (, ; commonly ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is antipodes, diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole.
The Antar ...
territory south of
60°S, and from
28°W to
53°W, proposed as a "zone of interest" by geopolitical scholar Therezinha de Castro. While the substance of that designation has never been precisely defined, it does not formally contradict the
Argentine
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and
British claims geographically overlapping with that zone (the zone shares a border but does not overlap with the
Chilean Antarctic Territory to its west). The country formally expressed its reservations with respect to its territorial rights in Antarctica when it acceded to the
Antarctic Treaty on 16 May 1975, making the first official mention of the Frontage Theory, which states (simplified) that sovereignty over each point in Antarctica properly (bar the
South Pole
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itself) belongs to the first country whose non-Antarctic territory one would reach when travelling north in a straight line from such a point.
O Projeto Brasileiro para a Antartica (p. 119)
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. Retrieved on 2010-10-23. . The Frontage Theory (''Teoria da Defrontação'') was proposed by Brazilian geopolitical scholar Therezinha de Castro and published in her book ''Antártica: Teoria da Defrontação''.
Outside the zone of interest, Brazil maintains a permanently staffed research facility, the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base ( UN/LOCODE: AQ-CFZ), located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
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, at . The peninsula is the northernmost, most accessible, and warmest part of the Antarctic continent and a number of countries, therefore, have research bases located on it.
See also
* Brazilian Antarctic Program
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Castro, Therezinha. ''"Antárctica: Assunto do Momento". Revista de Clube Militar'' (Brazil), 1958.
* Castro, Therezinha. ''Atlas-Texto de Geopolítica do Brasil''. Rio de Janeiro: Capemi Editora, 1982.
* Child, Jack. ''Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum''. New York: Praeger, 1988, Chapter 6.
* Coelho, Aristides Pinto. ''"Novas tendências". Boletim Antártico'', no. 4, Jan 1985.
* Dodds, Klaus. ''Geopolitics in Antarctica : views from the Southern Oceanic Rim''. Chichester ; New York : Published in association with Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge by J. Wiley, 1997.
* Moneta, Carlos J., ed. ''La Antártida en el Sistema Internacional del Futuro''. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Lationoamericano, 1988.
* Schmied, Julie. ''La Política Antárctica de los Países Latinoamericanos''. Madrid: Instituto de Cuestiones Internacionales, 1988.
WorldStatesmen - Antarctica
Map showing Brazilian Antarctica
Antarctica, But Sliced Differently
* W.L. de Freitas
Colégio Interamericano de Defesa, Washington, D.C.
External links
Brazilian Antarctica Parliamentary Committee
Official website
National Meteorology Center at the Com. Ferraz Antarctic Station
- Live webcams and weather data from the Brazilian Antarctic Base.
* ttp://www.geografia.fflch.usp.br/graduacao/apoio/Apoio/Apoio_Conti/Antartida.PDF Teoria de Defrontação
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