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== FAQ Antarctica ==
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===What's special about Antartica===
Is Antarctica a continent or a circle surrounding our known lands? For the flat-earthers, Antarctica represents the final bit of evidence that would undoubtedly prove to everyone if our earth is a ball or a flat plane. The fact that the Antarctic Treaty prevents exploration, it only adds further distrust of the countries who've joined the treaty.
 
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===Ice Wall===
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AntarticIceWall.jpg|Antartic Ice Wall
AntarticIceWall2.jpg|Antartic Ice Wall
Antarctica Elevation.png|Antarctica Elevation Graph ~ 2000 meters (6561.68 ft) <ref name="AntarcticaElevation" />
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=== Is Travel allowed to Antartica? ===
Yes, you can visit Antarctica, but You’ll definitely need to get a permit for exploring. <ref name="Request" /> You must follow all guidelines and rules of the IAATO (International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators). <ref name="IAATO" />
 
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Activities in '''Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs)''' or '''Antarctic Specially Managed Areas (ASMAs)''' must comply with the provisions of the relevant Management Plan. Many historic sites and monuments (HSMs) have been formally designated and protected. '''A permit from a relevant national authority is required for entry into any ASPA'''. Carry the permit and obey any permit conditions at all times while visiting an ASPA. <ref name="IAATOPermit" />
 
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The Antarctic Treaty <ref name="AntarcticTreaty "/><ref name="AntTreaty "/> and related agreements <ref name="43rdmeasure"/>, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica. It was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, setting aside the continent as a scientific preserve, establishing restrictions limiting travel to scientific investigation, and banning military activity; for the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all the land and ice shelves south of 60°S latitude.
 
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[[File:Antarctic_Treaty_flag.gif|300px]]
 
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Antarctic Treaty Timeline
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! Date !! Event
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| 9/2/1947 || The quadrant of Antarctica in which the United States was interested (between 24° W and 90° W) was included as part of the security zone of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, committing its members to defend it in case of external aggression.
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| 9/1948 || The United States proposed that Antarctica be under the guardianship of the United Nations
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| 1950 || The interest of the United States to keep the Soviet Union away from Antarctica was frustrated, when the Soviets informed the claimant states that they would not accept any Antarctic agreement in which they were not represented. The fear that the USSR would react by making a territorial claim, bringing the Cold War to Antarctica
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| 1/17/1953 || Argentina reopened the Lieutenant Lasala refuge on Deception Island, leaving a sergeant and a corporal in the Argentine Navy.
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| 2/15/1953 || in the incident on Deception Island, 32 royal marines landed from the British frigate HMS Snipe armed with Sten machine guns, rifles, and tear gas capturing the two Argentine sailors.
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| 5/4/1953 || the United Kingdom filed two lawsuits, against Argentina and Chile respectively, before the International Court of Justice to declare the invalidity of the claims of the sovereignty of the two countries over Antarctic and sub-Antarctic areas.
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| 7/15/1953 || the Chilean government rejected the jurisdiction of the court in that case, and on 1 August, the Argentine government also did so, so on 16 March 1956, the claims were closed.
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| 1956 and 1958 || India tried unsuccessfully to bring the Antarctic issue to the United Nations General Assembly.
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| 9/9/1957 || 66 countries participated in the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) meeting in Stockholm. The creation of a Special Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) was approved, inviting the twelve countries conducting Antarctic investigations to send delegates to integrate the committee, with the purpose of exchanging scientific information among its members regarding Antarctica. The SCAR was later renamed to the Scientific Committee for Research in Antarctica.
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| 12/1/1959 || The main treaty was opened for signature
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| 6/23/1961 || Antarctic Treaty officially entered into force
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| 9/2004 || Antarctic Treaty Secretariat headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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| 2023 || the treaty has 56 parties
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| 2048|| Any of the consultative parties to the treaty may request the revision of the treaty and its entire normative system, with the approval of a relative majority
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=== 24 hour Sun? ===
[[File:24HrSun.jpg|300px|right]]▼
According to the FE model, in Antarctica, it would be impossible to have 24-hour daylight like has been demonstrated in multiple videos of the Northern region. Questioning the 24-hour Antarctica daylight has caused many people to create clearly fake or incomplete videos in hopes to cover this inconvenient and difficult to prove issue.
 
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▲[[File:24HrSun.jpg|300px|]]
 
If you watch this video of the purported 24hr sun in Antarctica, you can clearly see that video is edited and doctored to create the illusion of a full day of sun.
 
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Fake 24-hour Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQlr366eels YouTube: Antarctica 24 hour Sun]
 
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Split your screen and load the video on both screens. Pause the 1st one at 0:23, then switch to the other screen and pause the 2nd video at 1:22 - You can clearly see that the two stills show the exact same cloud pattern. To me, it's pretty clear that this video has been cut and looped.
 
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[[File:Antartica24hrLoop.jpg|500px]]
 
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There are other videos that seem to show the 24 hr. loop, but I also know that some of those can clearly be debunked like this one was due to silly editing errors, and some have no proof to their location. Sun movement could be easily faked with CGI or by filingfilming thea northern region and claiming it was the "South pole".
 
NOAA.GOV website shows multiple time-lapse videos of the south pole, however every day it skips about 13 hours; again skirting around any proof of a 24-hour sun. Jeran at [[People/Content_Creators/Jeranism|Jeranism]] wrote these people about the missing footage, and they made excuses about limited bandwidth is why the videos are missing time. <ref name="timelapse"/>
 
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===See Also===
* [[Misc/Videos/Antarctica and the 24-hour sun]]
 
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=== References ===
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<ref name="IAATO">[https://iaato.org iaato.org: International Association of Antarctica Tour Operations website]</ref>
<ref name="IAATOPermit">[https://iaato.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Antarctic-Treaty-General-Guidelines.pdf iaato.org: Antarctic-Treaty-General-Guidelines PDF]</ref>
<ref name="Request">[https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds4131.pdf eforms.state.gov: Request form]</ref>
<ref name="AntarcticaElevation">[https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=ICESAT_ELEV_G neo.gsfc.nasa.gov: Antarctica Elevation]</ref>
<ref name="43rdmeasure">[[:File:The_Antarctic_Treaty_43rd_Measures_CP_726.pdf|PDF: Measures adopted at the Forty-Third Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting]]</ref>
<ref name="AntarcticTreaty">[[:File:Antarctic_Treaty_1959.pdf|PDF: Antartic Treaty 1959]]</ref>
<ref name="AntTreaty">[https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/antarct/anttrty.jsp nsf.gov The Antarctic Treaty]</ref>
<ref name="timelapse">[https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/spo/movies.php noaa.gov South Pole Time Lapse Movies]</ref>
 
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