Australian Antarctic Territory

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Australian Antarctic Territory

the area of Antarctica, other than Adélie Land, that is administered by Australia (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty), lying south of latitude 60°S and between longitudes 45°E and 160°E

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Bathie C and Pett J (2019b) The four ladies of Prydz Bay: Notes on the naming of a submarine formation featuring in surveys of marine benthos in Australian Antarctic Territory. The Victorian Naturalist 136, 45-47.

Three Antarctic ascidians from Four Ladies Bank: Cnemidocarpa pfefferi (Michaelsen, 1898), Pyura discoveryi (Herdman, 1910) and Bathypera splendens Michaelsen, 1904

However, Christensen's earlier exploration work is included and Norwegian names are intertwined with those of Mawson from BANZARE in the western part of the Australian Antarctic Territory as is shown along the coast of MacRobertson Land (Fig.

The 1939 Australian map of Antarctica

Coincidentally on that day in the Antarctic, the Red Flag was being hoisted over a new Soviet base on the Australian Antarctic territory. The politicians were squabbling but the scientists were not.

The Antarctic nuclear-free zone

Although ascidians have been proposed as sentinel species able to signal effects of global warming on benthic composition (Segelken-Voigt 2016), our investigation indicates that ascidians in Australian Antarctic Territory have received little attention so far.

Notes on the Ascidian component of a Marine Benthos survey in Australian Antarctic Territory