UK names southern part of British Antarctic Territory “Queen Elizabeth Land”
The Foreign Secretary announced on Tuesday that the southern part of British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth Land.
The Queen visited the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for the second time on Tuesday, as the last official engagement of her Diamond Jubilee year. The previous visit was in 1982 to mark the department’s bicentenary.
Following a tour of the building, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that the southern part of the British Antarctic Territory had been named ‘Queen Elizabeth Land’ in honor of The Queen’s sixtieth year on the throne.
“As a mark of this country’s gratitude to the Queen for her service, we are naming a part of the British Antarctic Territory in her honor as ‘Queen Elizabeth Land’.
“This is a fitting tribute at the end of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee year, and I am very proud to be able to announce it as she visits the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
“The British Antarctic Territory is a unique and important member of the network of fourteen UK Overseas Territories. To be able to recognize the UK’s commitment to Antarctica with a permanent association with Her Majesty is a great honor”, said Foreign Secretary Hague.
The area now to be known as Queen Elizabeth Land, which was previously unnamed, is around 169.000 square miles (437.000 sq km), making up just under a third of the whole land mass of the British Antarctic Territory. This is almost twice the size of the UK, which stands at 94.000 square miles (244.000 sq km).
Queen Elizabeth Land is bounded on the North side by the Ronne and Filchner ice shelves, to the North East by Coats Land, on the East by Dronning Maud Land and extending on the West side to a line between the South Pole and Rutford Ice Stream, east of Constellation Inlet.
Her Majesty The Queen has been on the throne for 60 of the 104 years since the UK claimed territory in Antarctica in 1908. This includes the entire time it has been known as the British Antarctic Territory.
• The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) extends from 20o to 80oWest. It was claimed by the UK in 1908 and was the first official claim in Antarctica. It was designated officially as a separate Overseas Territory in 1962.
• All claims to territory within Antarctica are held in abeyance under Article IV of the Antarctic Treaty, 1959, which neither confirms nor denies competing claims, but prevents new claims being made.
• The name Queen Elizabeth Land will now be used on all British maps. Because of the unique status of Antarctica, which is covered by an international Treaty that suspends territorial sovereignty, it is for other countries to decide whether or not they will officially recognize this name.
• Place naming in BAT is undertaken on the basis that a currently unnamed area requires a name for scientific or logistical purposes. This approach is fully in line with the Antarctic Treaty.
• Decisions on names are made by the Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory, who is based in London. The Commissioner takes advice on new names from the Antarctic Place Names Committee, which meets twice a year.
• The BAT has no permanent population. British presence is maintained via three research stations operated by the British Antarctic Survey. The Territory itself is self-financing, investing modest receipts from stamp sales and the income tax from over wintering British scientists in environmental projects
• This is not the first time that land in Antarctica has been named after The Queen. Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica, which was discovered in 1931 by the Australian Sir Douglas Mawson, was named by him after Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth (now Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II). And in 2006, an unnamed mountain range in the Antarctic Peninsula was named The Princess Royal Range, in recognition of Her Royal Highness’s work to support environmental and heritage protection work in Antarctica.
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Nobody owns Antarctica, so countries can name areas how they like.
Sorry boys...... But the area has already a name........
Macizo Armada Argentina....
Chuckle chuckle
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But that's in Argie speak...nobody pays any attention to that.
Before you know it they will be claiming the Falkland Islands..what a joke !
cock a doodle doo
We did this just to piss you off. Did it work?
Kind regards
HMG
after all that is REALITY!
SELF DETERMINATION!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
“Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia. God Save the Queen.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-xEHwwpH8
and we come along and, hey presto, its done,
that the southern part of British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth Land
long live the queen..
and this truely, again and again, shows why they want Malvinas.
no exist,..
LOL!!!
The Antarctic Treaty expressly indicates that no new claims shall be made following ratification and entry in effect (which was in '59). Furthermore, it implies that no claims are of a “mortmain” nature. In other words, if the entity which made the claim ceases to exist, any ensuing or succeeding “descendant” cannot have such claim deeded, remised, or bequeathed.
In other words, the English better start praying, laying oblations, and burning incenses propitiating the higher power(s) to keep the UK intact for the next 40-50 years, until the treaty could be abolished, changed, or rescinded.
If the UK breaks up within that time frame, their claim instantly “vanishes” and “England” would have to RE-SIGN the treaty (in which case they cannot make a new claim since the treaty prohibits this), or refuse to sign it in which case the treaty nations can evict them out of Antarctica for not abiding by the rules of engagement.
LOL... I have extra rosaries for anyone who requests them.
Not all Brits like the monarchy. In fact many feel the way you do. However, may I remind you that illogically millions worship God, Queen Cristina, Evita, Peronismo, idea of nationalism and -Las Malvinas- Gaucho Gil, Mayan prophecies etc
Queen Elizabethg is respected the world over unlike the NAZIS running Argentina the dead Nazi Nestor and is disgusting trollop of a wife Cristina
No one givea a hot. You have no rights to Antarctica. It is an international territory.
12 Pirate Love (#) now wants to Give SELF DETERMINATION to the Antarctic Penguins.
Or you could read the article.
Evita, Kirchner, Peron, God, Alah, people can change those in a bit. Changing relition or voting for a different candidate.
Andy65, to tell our former president or our current government NAZI, only shows your ignorance on the matter and your lack of culture. The kirchner couple are defined by their anti-militaristics stance and their defense of human rights alowing the trials to suspects of state terrorism from the last military dictatorship, he retired the pictures of Videla ( dictator, political ally of the uk) from all military offices, etc.
Anyway the fact she is the queen of many other nations my stance is the same. She is cold, becouse she was raised that way, she is old, becouse she is, she is ugly, well is my perception of her, and she is a b...ch, becouse even many of your country men think the same way as i do, ask Lady di.
“Malvinas.
no exist,..”
I have to repeat it again?
Yes there are, see the Google Earth. Are beautiful ARGENTINES islands located 370km of Isla de los Estados (Argentina), Argentina, South America, Planet Earth.
“The Foreign Office said the new name would now be used on all British maps. It said that it would be left to other countries to decide whether to recognise it”
Hahahahaha good luck with that.
May be she believes the story(Disney) and want to be frozen like Walt.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chunk-of-antarctic-named-in-honour-of-the-queen--a-chilly-signal-to-argentina-8424496.html
Read and learn suckers !
God save the Queen and her South Atlantic realm.
Argentina is ignored anyway on the basis it thinks some fantasy islands exist called malvinas that nobody else recognizes and then it goes one step further to to claim they own these islands yet never in history have they ever owned these islands.
Argentina - a wonderful fantasy!
Anyone want to bet me that these islands will be acknowledged by other countries?
Well done.
Wonder what ever happened to all those blue and white flags we captured, suppose they must be in a museum somewhere?
The mullet-strokers are just upset that it's not going to be called nestorland, or maximoland... like some psychotic theme park.
thats the matter, we know it.
I think Ch and Arg will reject and all the region
For me this is the classic concept of colonialism: giving remote land (even they are under international treaty) gifts to Kings and Queens.
The poor deluded Malvanistas, inc the fake American and no doubt when he wakes up Pratt-Junta are running around like headless chickens over this.
What a marvellous image that conjures up.
Well she is hardly likely to be building a palace there is she or walking her corgi's there is she.
We don't need an empire to spread our love. It was always known as the British Antarctic Territory before and there was no bleating then, so suck it up, it's Queen Elizabeth Land now, deal with it!
1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqqZh7iDB_c/TTwbAQGqeiI/AAAAAAAACAg/BuUzxQDczGs/s1600/141208_Bases_Antartida_Argentina.jpg
I'm sure if you seek one of Chilean origin, will say “Tierra de O'Higgins” is that there are an agreement in 1947 between Argentina and Chile to agreement defining border demarcation between the two countries, Mr. invaders.
Reading the Argentine claim on Wiki is rather funny - they claim to be the ultimate anti colonialists and yet have behaved like it's still the 19th century.
I'm sorry but the Penguins only allow people who pay their debts on Antarctica, it's the rules. You could always fight us for it but your soldiers don't do to well in the cold do they, not to mention your ships that are Muy Oxidado lol
If I was Chilean, I'd be worried, because let's face it... Chile is close to Argentina, and Chile has access to the Pacific, which is what the nazis want next.
“For me this is the classic concept of colonialism”
A concept that colonialist and Imperialist Argentina is well familiar with.
But your crude and pathetic colonialist attempts in 1982 to disenfranchise a democracy ended in utter utter failure as indeed it did in 1832 when we also took three months to eject your illegal garrison (you rememeber, the one that mutinied on itself, consisting of murderers and rapists?).
The weak case in both Chile and Argentina's claim are that they made their claim some 40 years after the UK - and at no point during the time from 1908 to their own claims did they dispute the UK claim; their citizens recognised the UK's claim by purchasing fishing and whaling rights from the UK and that the UK and of course as soon as Chile and Argentina made their claims in the 1940s, they were immediately disputed by the UK. The Papal Bull claim is just that - Bull. Antartica is a seperate continent, not an extension of South America. The Reina Batata will have to try a bit harder - and if this ever went to the ICJ, the UK have a far stronger claim to sovereignty.
However, the most laughable claim I have seen is the Argentine claim for South Georgia that is based on the fact that an Argentine company paid for a licence from the UK to base a processing plant their - so therefore does that mean Germany can claim soverignty over argentina because they have a Mercedes factory in the country? LMAO
Meanwhile argie jealousy once again shows them up,
Their envy is so acute,
You have nothing,
And you will get nothing,
All you do is talk talk and brag.
.
It is good timing.
I like the analogy 'poking the ants nest' (pt #24); made me smile.
It was bound to happen sooner or later!
Impossible. The glorious IRELAND (who commanded the queen of shit of England right there: to the shit) defends our sovereignty.
In the lyrics of this beautiful Irish song carefully address the truths that says about the rotten English:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzjkX9AYMYQ
♫ Las Islas Malvinas Argentinas♫
What I want to know is where this delusional behaviour begins... is it as a result of schooling? is it as a result of some kind of training they receive when they join la campora?
It would be very interesting to put one through therapy in order to truly understand how they can uphold this level of dissonance without having a breakdown of some variety.
In British Antarctic Territory - HUZAARRR
God save the Queen - HUZAARRR
@26 Nostrolldamus The 3rd
Fundamentally flawed, because even if Scotland (for sake of argument) left the UK, the UK would continue as an entity unchanged in all legal respects.
Just as an independent Scotland would have to negotiate membership of the EU as a new entrant, whereas the UK would not.
@55 José Malvinero
The Brits were there (and claiming uninhabited territory, 1908 was a consolidation of existing separate British claims from much earlier), long before you finished conquering your way down S. America to get to be our neighbours in that part of the world.
We have more right to be there, than you have to be in Patagonia.
If you had any idea how hilarious it sound to the Brits when you call US invaders in that part of the world, you would not say it I assure you.
The simple truth is that you have run out of S. America to steal from the Indians, so you think you’ll take British territory instead, the difference is that unlike Atahulpa the British have more than just bows and arrows with which to defend their territory.
I admire Admiral Brown and went to see his grave in Foxford , County Mayo, supposedly partly maintained by the Argentine government. The dilapidation and mess of rubbish and plastic shamed me as a South American
Nothing hangs between your legs, that’s why you “perdieron las Malvinas por huevones”
... oh wait, they already did that.
The first one. The UK doesn't cease to exist should Scotland gain independence. So it won't affect it's claim to Antartica. Russia after all inherited the USSR's rights under the treaty.
Anyway guess who will be the Queen of the Kingdom Scotland.
I know Australia, New Zealand, Norway and France will update their maps as they have territory in Antartica and will have little issue with this.
Actually most countries will. Except for Argentina and maybe Chile. Queen Elizabeth is after all one of the most respected heads of state in the world.
”this is just pure sycophantic fawning, so loved by the english and the royal family.
What next ?
Planet Windsor ( formerly known as the earth )
Pathetic self indulgence and small mindedness, and embarrassing on the world stage”
You don't actually say anything really. You attack but don't actually state a position. It's very weak! Where's your rebuttal? Your counter claim? Your argument? Your facts?
So where exactly is my “pure sycophantic fawning”? Was it my comment on international law? That the Queen will still be the Queen of Scotland even after independence?
Elizabeth II is also the Queen of Australia and New Zealand, Norway is a monarchy and France has a very close relationship with the UK, so I stand by my claim.
”Planet Windsor (formerly known as the earth)“. Hyperbolic much?
”Pathetic self indulgence and small mindedness, and embarrassing on the world stage”
Yes you are indeed pathetic, self indulgent and small minded. And pretty much an embarrassment for your own country as far as I can see. And you just let the whole world see it too.
Of course he denies it is him. Different Marcos Alejandro, his Knowledge of the English language and the UK? pure coincidence.
Like I say. ingrate and hypocrit.
Common trait for some on here.
If anyone comes to Usuhaia and wants to go to Queen Elizabeth Land, we will say:¿¿¿ lo qué????? No, we dont have that destination. A pity.
talk about desperate,
Still,
If the Mayans are correct you will all be dead by tomorrow,
that’s why you will never have nothing,
you lot still believe in fairies.
lol.
Still
we will all be back by Saturday
Nobody with any understanding of the real world has ever heard of AG, or if they have it will only be because of the antics of TMBOA or one of her clowns.
Nobody who wants to go to Antarctica to see the newly named area will be going via Usuhuaia, they will go via the Falklands (there are STILL no Malvinas you pratts) because they will either be British or friends of the British.
Question: has AG GOT any friends, real friends I mean, not just SA ‘Presidents’?
if only to stop the argies from claiming all of it.
Perhaps because on their own they are abject cowards?
Jose Manuel Barroso said they would, earlier this week.
Obviously doesn’t want them keeping any CAP rebates, and being a net recipient country rather than a net payer.
Not proven maybe, definitely not false.
You proved my point then. Barroso has his own opinion of the articles, but they don't correspond to people who actually write and are experts in those laws and treaties.
And erm, I don't think they want to throw out a country that has citizens who have been part of the EU for 40 years, plus we have 50%+ of European fishing grounds and oil worth £1.5 trillion.
An odd name to give yourself.
The lady from the SNP interviewed on the BBC World Service expressed similar surprise, and sentiments.
Trouble is that his “opinion “is not just that of the “average Joe”.
It is quite clear from this that the terms of Scotland’s membership of the EU, would have to be agreed (with the rest of the (cash strapped) EU).
And you prove my point, that for all the economic reasons you describe Scotland would be expected to be a net contributor.
Be in no doubt that is what this is all about, with the Eurocrats like “no way Pedro”.
With the exit of Scotland from the UK, the EU contribution from the UK would automatically be reduced.
Zero sum game at best, if possible they will want more, you will have to work hard to get them to agree to the same total income FOR THEM.
Welcome to life in the big pond.
The UK as a whole, including Scotland, is a net contributor to the EU, according to EU and UK figures so you are most likely false on that one.
Barroso has no say on anything to do with membership applications. He can't reject or veto any apps, so in the long run his opinion is ultimately worthless when compared to legal experts who set up many EU laws that agree with Scotland's stance.
Anyway, I would rather see Scotland only in the Euro Trade Agreement like Norway.
“If anyone comes to Usuhaia and wants to go to Queen Elizabeth Land, we will say:¿¿¿ lo qué?????”
:-))))))))))))))))))))))))
Who would bother to go via Argentina to get to (what is now) QE land
Malvinas - Lo que?????.
Considering how much of Antarctica has been explored and mapped by the British, the last person they would ask is an Argentinean in Usuhaia.
They'd probably get a better reception in Port Stanley..... a bit like the cruise ships.
In the same period , Argentina has had 27 presidents , 9 of them military dictators and almost all the rest Peronists .
You have had the same number of economic crises as presidents , and are just embarking on yet another one now .
Let's face it , you are an nothing more than an ungovernable mob of welfare dependent grief whores , incapable of work , progress or stability .
I don't know about Antartica , but Argentina ought to be renamed
“ Merseyside del Sur ”
Good point, the difference is of course that there are some REAL gangsters and head-bangers in Merseyside.
No question the UK is, and would continue to be, a contributor in the EU albeit at a lower level.
Question is what would Scotland be???????
Barroso didn’t claim to have any say over applications, he simply said Scotland would have to make one.
Whilst I personally greatly dislike the man and most of what he stands for, to say that his opinion is “ultimately worthless” in this scenario is frankly naive in the extreme.
He will have had legal advice of his own, and you can be sure (because he has said, what he has said) he is not the only high level Eurocrat thinking that way.
“legal experts who set up many EU laws” – Who is that then?
“that agree with Scotland's stance” – What is that stance then?
Doesn’t look like you will get the option of a Euro Trade Agreement. No idea whether is would work for you, but it would be sensible to at least consider it.
That's a very interesting story you have there, it's complete crap. But interesting because you act like such an intellectual.
When the treaty was signed, the British empire(the entity it was at the tme) seill held vast areas of Africa under it's power. The empire(entity that signed the treaty) broke up, and became the UK, yet to this day still did not relinquish it's rights to this treaty.
What you have said in that post is utter horse dung. The treaty like all is signed for the reigning reagent. And until the royal family is dissolved the “entity” that signed the treaty is still intact.
I could'nt care less if any other nation decided to re-name the bits of Antartica they claim, either. That includes Argentina. If they honestly wanted to name parts of the continent they have a presence in after national heroes, that would be fine by me.
However, to prevent chaos, there should be an independent body who monitors this. I had a quick look before wriyting this post, but could'nt see who would be the responsible authority for Antartica, unless it falls under the remit of the Antartic treaty system.
Any thoughts anyone?
poor as the BBC is, a few second on Google would show that there are a variety of national stations within the sector being operated by a variety of countries.
British reporting of the matter is poor and partisan.
The worthy status of these research stations will remain unchanged even though the name of the continental sector on the world's maps has, from 2012/3, changed.
I do not know which report you are referring to but I couldn't find “a variety of national stations” there.
You are aware that Queen Elizabeth Kand is only one part of the British Antarctic Territory? Its northern boundary is the Ronne Ice Shelf and Coates Land. It doesn't included Palmer or Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.
I don't think the BBC got it wrong mate.
still,
argentina may yet break up.
Firstly, - How many Pirats have you caught so far?
Secondly, - How old are you?
Thirdly, - What the Fkuc are you on?.
Everybody wins!
Queen Elizabeth Land in Antarctica complements Norway's Queen (Dronning) Maude Land next door.
Google blog page, “Become an Antarctic explorer with panoramic imagery” has some imagery in Queen Elizabeth Land:
googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/07/become-antarctic-explorer-with.html
High summer at British Antarctic Base Rothera: www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/research_stations/rothera/
Google aerial view Rothera Base: goo.gl/maps/pL9BV
Surely the Brits are joking! If not maybe other countries can follow the UK's lead of naming lands after client monarchs. For instance, the Israeli government could cast back into the past for a client king of their own and rename Israel “Herod's Land”. What a laugh.
“I do not know which report you are referring to but I couldn't find “a variety of national stations” there. ”
I found lots of nations with permanent and/or seasonal stations in Queen Elizabeth Land. 30 seconds on Google -> Wiki gave me a long list and a map:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_Station_Map.gif
I can't believe you just compounded your mistake.
Antarctica is 14,000,000km2
The British Antactic Territory is 1,709,400km2
Queen Elizabeth Land (QEL) is 437,000km2
So QEL is only 25.5% of British Antarctic Territory or 3% of the entire continent.
As I stated before, its northern boundary is the Ronne Ice Shelf and Coates Land. It DOES NOT include Palmer or Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Find an actual map of QEL and then compare it to your map or list.
FCO probably geo-crafted QEL boundaries to exclude currently-active foreign bases. Apparently now-abandoned Arturo Parodi base (Chile) might be inside QEL boundary, while Sobral (Argentina) appears to be sited just outside.
Not sure about Amundsen-Scott Polar Base, as it is said to be shifting, but if A-S base photo aligned North-South, probably just outside QEL as well as British Antarctic Territory and QEL boundary at True Geographic South Pole .
FCO Announcement: “Because of the unique status of Antarctica, which is covered by an international Treaty that suspends territorial sovereignty, it is for other countries to decide whether or not they will officially recognise this name.”
- so I'm definitely going to ask Canadian government to recognize QEL name. Right now, along with several other Commonwealth Countries, we do have several Queen Elizabeth Parks in Canada but QEL in BAT has a cachet far beyond a park.
Map of Antarctic bases (includes Arturo Parodi and Sobral):
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Antarctica_Station_South_Pole_Amundsen-Scott.gif
Aerial photo of Amundsen-Scott base, with South Pole labled as sited near lower left corner:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Pole-from-air.jpg
FCO News Queen Elizabeth Land:
www.gov.uk/government/news/queen-elizabeth-land
The Admiralty and navy do usually refer to it as a the union jack, but this is not a hard and fast rule.
I thought the same as you until the BBC did a documentary about it, I was quite surprised.
Indeed, not a hard and fast rule for labelling as Union Jack or the Union Flag.
Similar for Australia and Canada, the common official term is the “Union Jack”, but in Canada since 1964, known as the “Royal Union Flag”, differentiating it from the British colonial Canadian Red Ensign, used by the Royal Canadian Navy and adopted by all Canadian military services to carry into battle and the country during WWII.
Australia flag: www.anbg.gov.au/oz/flag-union.html
Canada flag history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada#History
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