British Antarctic Territories.
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BRINISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY (BAT), - is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom and is a British overseas territory. Area - 1,395,000 sq. km. Population - 200 (staff of research and support stations ) Capitel - None . The British Antarctic Territory . It is situated in Antarctica from the South Pole to 60° S latitude between longitudes 20° W and 80° W. The Territory was formed on March 3, 1962, although the UK first claimed this portion of the Antarctic in 1908. Before 1962, the area now covered by the Territory comprised three separate dependencies of the Falkland Islands; Graham Land, the South Orkney Islands, and the South Shetland Islands. The Territory overlaps other claims on Antarctica by Argentina (Argentine Antarctica) and Chile (Antartica Chilena Province). The United Kingdom has had a continuous presence in the South Atlantic since 1833 when it occupied the Falkland Islands. In 1908 the UK extended its territory by declaring sovereignty over the territory that is British Antarctic Territory today, as well as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The territory was governed as three separate dependencies; Graham Land, the South Orkneys, and the South Shetlands, administered from Stanley by the Governor of the Falkland Islands. In 1943, at the height of World War II, the UK undertook a military operation known as Operation Tabarin, to provide reconnaissance and meteorological information in the South Atlantic Ocean. This "secret" wartime project became the civilian Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and later the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The BAS is responsible for most of the United Kingdom's scientific research in Antarctica. Several other nations began to stake claims to Antarctica, and in the 1950s, a treaty was negotiated to demilitarise the region, and retain Antarctica for peaceful research purposes. The treaty was passed in 1961. In response the UK hived off all its territory below the 60° S latitude into the British Antarctic Territory, established by Order-in-Council. Only France, Norway, New Zealand and Australia, who themselves have territorial claims on the continent, recognise British Antarctic Territory.[ Currency : 1 Pound Sterling.
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