The individual territorial claims. All of these claims were effectively nullified by the Antarctic Treaty, which states that no territorial claim will be acknowledged, although the Treaty also states that it has no effect on the claims. Before signing the treaty, the US and USSR specifically reserved the right to make claims in the future. | ![]() |
An topographic map of Ross Island produced by the USGS and marked up by myself. An unmarked and higher-resolution version, actually a scan of a printed map, can be found at the USGS USARC here, under "Ross Island & Vicinity". |
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This is a cropped version of the most recent (1970) topographic map of Ross Island that I've encountered. Produced by the USGS. Click on the image at right for a larger version of this map. The original, uncropped, and biggest version of this map can be found at the USGS US Antarctic Resource Center, here under "Ross Island". |
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A zoom of the preceeding map, showing Hut Point Peninsula. | ![]() |