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Antarctica

Flag of Antarctica?
Flags in Antarctica
Flags for Antarctica

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Current territorial claims (south of the 60°S parallel — each is unrecognized by all other countries):
- Tierra del Fuego, Antárctica y Islas del Atlántico Sur (includes Argentine claim, 25°W to 74°W)
- Australian Antarctic Territory (Australian claim, 160°E to 142°E and 136°E to 45°E)
- British Antarctic Territories (British claim, 20°W to 80°W)
- Magallanes y Antárctica Chilena (includes Chilean claim, 53°W to 90°W)
- Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises (includes French claim, 142°E to 136°W)
- Ross Dependency (New Zealand claim, 150°W to 160°E)
- Dronning Mauds Land (Norwegian claim, 45°E to 20°E) and Per I Øy (Norwegian off shore claim)
Other territorial claims:
- Antártica Brasileira (Brazilian informal claim, 1986, 28°W to 53°W)
- Deutsch Neuschwabenland (German claim, 1939, 20°E to 10°W)
- South African Antarctica (unverified South African claim, 1963)
- (Russia and the United States have reserved the right to make claims, although they haven’t made any yet.)
Clickable map of Antarctica
Antarctica — flag proposals
«Breaking the ice» project
Countries with any kind of local presence (as of 1999):
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Chile
- China
- Ecuador (activity resumed in 2001)
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Netherlands (uses third part facilities)
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Peru
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain (activity started in 2000?)
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom (incl. a Scottish Antarctic Expedition and early British polar expeditions’ sledge flags)
- United States
- Uruguay
Antarctic Vexillological Association

Flag of Antarctica?

There is no official flag for Antarctica — mostly because there is no government or other authority to adopt such a flag.
Ole Andersen, 20 Feb 2000

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