Why haven'tq the USA or Russia claimed the bottom-left corner

Antarctic territorial claims have no basis in international law.

Hence why it's only the insignificant countries making them, for self esteem reasons.

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>>1107428
>Antarctic territorial claims have no basis in international law.
But the USA and Russia have the right to a free claim of Antarctic territory, it's in the Antarctic treaty

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>>1107428
>international law

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>>1107460
Is it just me, or are 90% of posters who use anime reaction images smug morons?

No shit international law matters if it's the US, Russia, and China saying it does.

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1 Bazillion Years B.C.

Alien Space Bats move Antartica to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with it’s norther peninsula roughly where Hawaii is today and it’s southern coast south of the Equator, more or less along a line east of New Guinea occupying what is defined as Polynesia - what happens next?

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>>1107486

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>>1107481

>>1107398
They reserve the right to, but don't really care enough.

>>1107514
There's probably tons of interesting, well preserved fossils hidden under there that we'll never get to see.

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>>1107466
>international
>law

>>1107523
>In the year 2041, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty could potentially be modified or amended.

It's gonna be a bad year for Antarctica.

>>1107531
Okay.

You go down there and try and mine some ore and set up your own country.

See if you get your shit pushed in.

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>>1107543
>expansionist superpowers not near Antarctica dictating others what they should and shouldn't do of Antarctica
>"law"

>>1107398
Could I fly over to Antarctica and establish my own country there?

>>1107577
At least not anymore. Also, no one who is stationed in Antarctica even lives there permanently because it's so uninhabitable.