South Pole

During the decades and 1940 and 1950, Argentina, Chile and Great Britain formulated a series of reclamations for the South Pole, but they were not the only countries that wanted to get that region into their territory. That is why, and through several results from the International Geophysics year (1957-1958) in November of 1959 representatives of Argentina, Chile, Australia, Belgium, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Union of south Africa, USSR, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and United States, joined in Washington D.C. to form an agreement that will benefit all the countries, protect the continent and foment the cooperation in investigation material. From a series of agreements, the representatives signed the first of December of 1959 the Antarctic treaty, in which it includes 14 articles that foment the international cooperation, make null whichever reclaim of ownership of the continent and to avoid the experimentation of nuclear weapons in the region. The treaty started in 1961 and had avoided conflicts between several nations like Argentina, Chile and Great Britain.

Now a days it is important the Antarctica because there is natural gas there. This treaty was important because there could have been a war among these countries to get that important region. I think they made this treaty where nobody would get the region, but beyond this, those countries still want that important continent. On example of this case is the Falkland Islands, which Argentina wants them, Britain too. These islands are very important and it is a strategic point because it is the entrance to the “so wanted region”