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ABSTRACT This paper will focus on the interaction between the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Antarctic Treaty System, particularly the tensions and interplay between these two governance structures in relation to territorial sovereignty over continental shelves and extended continental shelves within the Antarctic Treaty area. Given the wealth of mineral resources buried within these shelves and the extremely fragile nature of the Antarctic ecosystem, this paper outlines what legal parameters were in place regarding state sovereignty. The submissions of Australia, Argentina and the United Kingdom to the Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf will be outlined and contrasted alongside the notes verbales lodged following their submission. Finally, the paper will highlight how the form of CLCS submission of each state could impact their resource management potentials in the future concluding with what suggestions could be made for the yet to be finalised, Chilean submission.
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27
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Antarctica and the Arctic are of crucial importance to global security. Their governance and the patterns of human interactions there are increasingly contentious; mining, tourism, bioprospecting, and fishing are but a few of the many issues of contention, while environmental concerns such as melting ice sheets have a global impact. The Polar Journal is a forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective and brings together the considerable number of specialists and policy makers working on these crucial regions across multiple disciplines. The journal welcomes papers on polar affairs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities and is especially interested in publishing policy-relevant research. Each issue of the journal either features articles from different disciplines on polar affairs or is a topical theme from a range of scholarly approaches. Topics include: • Polar governance and policy • Polar history, heritage, and culture • Polar economics • Polar politics • Music, art, and literature of the polar regions • Polar tourism • Polar geography and geopolitics • Polar psychology • Polar archaeology Manuscript types accepted: • Regular articles • Research reports • Opinion pieces • Book Reviews • Conference Reports.