Talk:Norwegian Antarctic Territory

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antarctica
Antarctica Portal
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Antarctica, which collaborates on articles related to Antarctica. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details.
Stub This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received an importance rating on the importance scale.

Yes MERGE. Inge 18:01, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

My "yes merge" comment above was intended for the merger of Dronning Maud Land and Queen Maude Land.Inge 20:32, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Better still: merge also the (sub-)antarctic uninhabited Norwegian islands into the same article (it has already been moved to a common name: Norwegian Antarctic Territory) Fastifex 23:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Borders

I believe I learned that the Norwegian Antarctic territory is the only claim that doesn't extend to 90S and doesn't have a definite northern limit (whereas the rest of them specifically run from 60S to 90S. Can this be a) confirmed and b) added (if confirmed)? --Canuckguy 22:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I've learned the same, but found no documentation to back me up, so I haven't changed the errors in various articles. The map at Image:Antarctica.jpg does appear to support that QML is not a sector. Jørgen 18:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
And, by the way, I think the reason for this is that Norway promotes the mid-line principle rather than the sector principle in the border conflict with Russia in the Arctic Ocean, and doesn't want the Antarctic claim to be inconsistent with this. Jørgen 18:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)