Collaboration
You now have all of the facts you need to make some decisions about whether we can inhabit Antarctica and how we can do it. With your group, develop a plan for:
- feeding people and determining the impact humans will have on the food chain;
- finding energy sources;
- determining the types of structures that could be built to house people;
- and writing the laws necessary to maintain order.
View the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Do I Need a Passport? on habitation.
Guided Questions
Treaties
- Who owns Antarctica?
- Are there treaties in place for settlement of Antarctica?
- What do you think is the most important element of any treaty? Can a treaty work if there is no enforcing body?
Resources
Antartica
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/treaties/ant.asp
The Antarctica Treaty
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/antarc.htm
Antarctica Treaties Act, 1996 This is the actual treaty that was put into place in 1996. http://www.gov.za/gazette/acts/1996/a60-96.htm
Antarctica Treaties
http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ocns/9570.htm
Antarctica II
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/
newton/AntarcticII.html
Antarctica A hotlist of treaties
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/antarctica.html
Marine Pollution
Marine Pollution One
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution1.html
Index of Ocean Regulations
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regs/
British Antarctic Survey
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_BAS/Cambridge/Divisions?EID/
Environment/Prevention_of_marine_pollution.html
Environmental Impact
Human Impact
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/
Human Interaction with Antarctica
http://auexplorer.tripod.com/antarctica3.html
Australian Antarctic Division
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?contnet=dynamic&title=Human+
impacts+ in+Antarctica&casic=3436&docid=2620&type=1&children=
Waste Management
Australian Antarctic Division Waste Management
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?content=dynamic&title=
Waste&casid= 214&docid=1&type=3&children=3416,3417,3418,755,3419
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/esd/index.html
South Pole Waste Segregation Plan
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/waste.html
Protected Areas
Earth Share
http://www.earthshare.org
Host Position Description, 2003
http://www.nsgo.seagrant.org/Knauss/2003/pd2003/NSF_PolarProgram.pdf
Managing Antarctica, CCAMLR and the Antarctica Treaty http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/
BB006BA85069AE4E80256C5A002ACC03
Food Production
Antarctic Life Forms--The Food Chain, "Who eats whom?" http://polarmistexp.com/polarmist_web/antarctica/life_foodchain.html
Antarctica The Ice is Moving
http://www.bluedolphin.org/Antarctica.html
Housing
Antarctica
http://challenge.education.utep.edu/webprojects/DesertProject/
text%20files/antarctica.html
Antarctica
http://www.concierge.com/antarctica
Building up, at the bottom
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/10/26/fp11s1-csm.shtml
Transportation
Antarctica Transportation 2001
http://workmall.com/wfb2001/antarctica/antarctica_transportation.html
Transportation in Antarctica
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/classes/transport.html
Laws
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