Pourquoi Pas Island
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Pourquoi Pas Island is a mountainous island, 27 km long and from 8 to 18 km wide, lying between Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord off the west coast of Graham Land in West Antarctica. It was discove
View of Pourquoi Pas Island from Horseshoe Island
Antarctic Treaty System
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The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native hum
A 2002 satellite composite image of Antarctica
1957 poster of Antarctica IGY projects
Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline, as at the Russian Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection.
This 1959 cover commemorated the opening of the Wilkes post office in the Australian Antarctic Territory.