Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region
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The Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region is the southern Region of Chile. Its capital is Punta Arenas. The region has many National Parks including the Bernardo O'Higgins, Torres del Paine, Yendegaia and many others. The most important towns and cities are: Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales, Porvenir and the southern city of the world (before Antarctica) Puerto Williams.
The Region is located in Patagonia and has important sites like the Strait of Magellan, Cape Horn, the Beagle Channel and the Drake Passage.
Chile holds a national claim over part of Antarctica, politically the Chilean Antarctic Territory is included in the Region.
The Region was going the be the scenario of a war between Chile and Argentina in 1978 (See Beagle Conflict) but the conflict was resolved by the Pope John Paul II and the war was avoided.
Chilean Antarctic Territory
- Main article: Chilean Antarctic Territory
Chilean sovereignty over Antarctica is the only one backed by legal titles among all the countries interested in it, has immediate proximity to Antarctica, without covering enormous distances, and with only one maritime route, so its rights are not colonialist unlike those of all the other nations that claim territory there. The territory belongs to the commune of Antártica in the Antártica Chilena Province of the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region. The territory reaches the South Pole.
Chile has the advantage, moreover, of a privileged and extended location towards its Antarctic possessions, which all other countries lack. While this would suggest that the Chilean situation is highly favorable to its position with respect to Antarctic territory, there are several claims to the same territory and the surrender policies of recent years have jeopardized years of efforts to consolidate Chilean territorial rights over the white continent. Even so, there is no other country in the world with legal titles and historical or geographical arguments as solid as those of the Chilean Antarctic territory.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Pinochet de la Barra, Óscar (November 1944). La Antártica Chilena. Editorial Andrés Bello.
- ↑ Francisco Orrego Vicuña; Augusto Salinas Araya (1977). Desarrollo de la Antártica (in es). Santiago de Chile: Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile; Editorial Universitaria..
- ↑ Pablo Mancilla González (July 1, 2011). Antecedentes históricos sobre el Territorio Antártico Chileno conocidos hacia la década de 1950 (es). Repositorio Antártica, Universidad de Magallanes.
- ↑ Andrea Calamari (June 2022). El conjurado que gobernó la Antártida (es). Jot Down.
- ↑ Guillermo Lagos Carmona (1985). Los Títulos Históricos – Historia de las Fronteras de Chile (in es). Andrés Bello.