Don't forget the USA, who has reserved the right to make any territorial claim if it so desires and also expressly doesn't recognize anyone else's territorial claim.

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BreeBree214

· 7y

Would especially be interesting if they don't modify their territorial claims, since right now they're all in slices. Imagine how awful it'd be if they actually tried to form colonies using those borders. It would be just an absolute mess.

Somebody needs to make a map of Antarctica's territorial claims with all the ice melted. I can't find one

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· 7y

Ugh. Horrible map. Low-resolution topography, and you can even see lines of longitude radiating out from the pole!

For the record, a high-resolution map (Bedmap2) of the Antarctic subglacial topography came out recently. This is what should have been used here. The data are available here.

The map used here looks like it was a poor interpolation of the low-resolution topography in Bedmap1 onto a latitude-longitude grid. Lat/lon grids make no sense near the poles, hence the ugly-looking lines of longitude visible here.

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jckgat

· 7y

It also completely fails to account for the inevitable hydrostatic rebound.

This is at terrible map.

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WoodyHarrlesonsAgent

· 7y

Is it accurate in terms of landmass?

I thought Antarctica was an group of islands that was covered in multiple ice sheets.

This map seems to be saying its a solid land mass under the ice

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starlinguk

· 7y

There's a big mountain in the middle of Antarctica. How come the water is sticking to it?

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Grenshen4px

· 7y

I wonder if theres fossils under antarctica. Plus assuming it did all melt its probably going to not have vegetation along with it still being a little too cold for colonization.

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BreeBree214

· 7y

We already found fossils in Antarctica. Their existence provide evidence for continental drift

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chilari

· 7y

Why does a continent which sits right on the south pole have east and west parts of it? Surely they're both north of the centre of the region. Wouldn't labelling them "Pacific" and "Atlantic-Indian" parts be more logical, and make their relative locations more obvious?

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jswhitten

· 7y

One side is in the Western Hemisphere, and the other in the Eastern.

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Hanidalon

· 7y

I think this is the most shocking of all these maps. Of course Antarctica would get smaller b0ecause so much ice is there already, but I didn't see such an archipelago forming being possible.

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blackiddx

· 7y

Antarctica is an archipelago, it's just covered with ice.

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flashman7870

· 7y

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hvE1YU72gPk/Tq-dhqDT9_I/AAAAAAAAAk0/x7T1nclDZlE/s1600/greenantarcticamap.png&imgrefurl=http://alternatehistoryweeklyupdate.blogspot.com/2011/10/showcase-green-antarctica.html&h=731&w=826&sz=949&tbnid=XQiKh5FmXgcZ7M:&tbnh=111&tbnw=125&zoom=1&usg=__efKFdKUBuM85_oBBeSd7pFSUnyQ=&docid=Y7S4TbNRxKWtDM&sa=X&ei=rzV8Uo3vGPXF4AOBg4HoDw&ved=0CEQQ9QEwAw

Not that's a map of antarctica.

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