Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Antarctica)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty (U.S. Dept. of State) "Note 2: Antarctica consists of the territory south of 60 degrees south latitude. This area includes claims by Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the legal status of which remains in suspense under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. The United States recognizes no claims to Antarctica."
• Antarctic Treaty of 1959 (U.N. Offices, Geneva) December 1, 1959; entered into force June 23, 1961

• United States Antarctic Resource Center
• Australian Antarctic Division

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

LEGISLATIVE

• Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (U.S. National Science Foundation) in PDF; as of October 1995
• Antarctic Conservation, 16 U.S.C. §2401 et seq.
  via GPO Access, U.S. House, or Cornell
• Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention, 16 U.S.C. §2431 et seq.
  via GPO Access, US House, or Cornell
• Antarctic Mineral Resources Protection, 16 U.S.C. §2461 et seq.
  via GPO Access, US House, or Cornell

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Antarctica (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Antarctica (Washburn University Law Library)
• Law Reviews / Commentaries:
  • Francioni, Francesco. Resource Sharing in Antarctica: For Whose Benefit?, 1 EUR. J. INT'L L. 258 (1990).
  • Pannatier, Serge. La protection du milieu naturel antarctique et le droit international de l'environnement, 7 EUR. J. INT'L L. 431 (1996).
  • Polk, Woodruff A. Welcome to the Hotel Antarctica: The EPA's Interim Rule on Environmental Impact Assessment of Tourism in Antarctica, 12 EMORY INT'L L. REV. 1395 (1998)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Cold Regions Bibliography ()
• Portals to the World: Antarctica ()
• Antarctica Bibliography (California Academy of Sciences Library)
• Byrd Polar Research Center
• NEWS: Antarctic Sun; Antarctican
• SPRILIB Antarctica (University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute)
• World Factbook: Antarctica (US Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Antarctica (Google); Antarctica (Yahoo)