Territorial claims: a slice of history Early Southern Ocean explorers, sealers and whalers claimed for their countries the islands closest to Antarctica as they discovered them in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Once ex

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• Territorial claims in Antarctica
• Antarctica
• 79th parallel south
• British Antarctic Territory
• Physical geography
• Lines of latitude
• Antarctic region