Wedged within the southern lands of Antarctica there's a huge area of land not claimed by any country. Here geopolitics, geography, environmental sciences, and history are all bound to collide, leaving us only able to guess as to what the future holds for this land.
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Sources / further reading:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-32934-X_37
https://www.livescience.com/antarctica-greenland-ice-loss-map-nasa.html
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/BEDMAP-digital-ice-thickness-model-of-Antarctica-Ice-thickness-is-given-in-meters_fig12_234382763
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/huge-atmospheric-rivers-could-quicken-antarctic-ice-melt/
https://theconversation.com/antarctica-has-lost-3-trillion-tonnes-of-ice-in-25-years-time-is-running-out-for-the-frozen-continent-98176
https://sites.uci.edu/morlighem/dataproducts/bedmachine-antarctica/
https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/activity_of_USA_in_antarctica.php
https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd26.htm
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1952/feb/20/falkland-islands-dependencies-hope-bay
https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1989/8926/892606.PDF
https://www.universetoday.com/tag/marie-byrd-land/
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/glacier-recession/glaciers-and-climate-change/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea02wCVIfh8