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World Park Base

Coordinates: 77°38′05″S 166°25′20″E / 77.6348°S 166.4222°E / -77.6348; 166.4222
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World Park Station
Base resupply
Base resupply
World Park Station is located in Antarctica
World Park Station
World Park Station
Location in Antarctica
Coordinates: 77°38′05″S 166°25′20″E / 77.6348°S 166.4222°E / -77.6348; 166.4222
RegionRoss Island
LocationCape Evans
EstablishedJanuary 1987 (1987-01)
Dismantled1992 (1992)
Government
 • TypeAdministration
 • BodyGreenpeace
Active timesAll year-round

World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in 1987 in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare the continent of Antarctica as a World Park. This would make the entire continent off-limits to commercial exploitation and pollution, and permit only limited scientific research. Greenpeace closed the base down in 1991 and completely dismantled the base in 1992.[1][2]

The official attitude amongst the Antarctic Treaty nations was that World Park Base was to be ignored and that no assistance be given to it, although New Zealand, which claims jurisdiction over Ross Dependency (though all territorial claims are in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty), would have assisted if a life-threatening situation arose.

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References

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  1. ^ Roura, Ricardo (January 2004). "Monitoring and remediation of hydrocarbon contamination at the former site of Greenpeace's World Park Base, Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica". Polar Record. 40 (1): 51–67. Bibcode:2004PoRec..40...51R. doi:10.1017/S0032247403003292. S2CID 129848169.
  2. ^ Roberts, Leslie Carol (2020). "The Gigaton Ice Theatre: Performing Ecoactivism in Antarctica". Performing Ice. Springer International Publishing. pp. 195–212. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4_9. ISBN 978-3-030-47388-4. S2CID 226729880.
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