World Park Base
Antarctic research station in Cape Evans, Ross Island
77°38′05″S 166°25′20″E / 77.6348°S 166.4222°E / -77.6348; 166.4222World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in 1987 in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare the continent of Antarctica as a World Park. This would make the entire continent off-limits to commercial exploitation and pollution, and permit only limited scientific research. Greenpeace closed down in 1991 and completely dismantled the base in 1992.[1][2]
The official attitude amongst the Antarctic Treaty nations was that World Park Base was to be ignored and that no assistance be given to it, although New Zealand, which claims jurisdiction over Ross Dependency (though all territorial claims are in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty), would have assisted if a life-threatening situation arose.
See also
- List of Antarctic research stations
- List of Antarctic field camps
References
- ^ Roura, Ricardo (January 2004). "Monitoring and remediation of hydrocarbon contamination at the former site of Greenpeace's World Park Base, Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica". Polar Record. 40 (1): 51–67. Bibcode:2004PoRec..40...51R. doi:10.1017/S0032247403003292. S2CID 129848169.
- ^ Roberts, Leslie Carol (2020). "The Gigaton Ice Theatre: Performing Ecoactivism in Antarctica". Performing Ice. Springer International Publishing. pp. 195–212. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4_9. ISBN 978-3-030-47388-4. S2CID 226729880.
External links
- Greenpeace World Park Base 1987-91
- Greenpeace in Antarctica
- Creating the World Park Antarctica
Portals:
Earth sciences
Geography
- v
- t
- e
Ross Island
and bases
- Discovery Hut
- Lower Erebus Hut
- McMurdo Station
- Scott Base
- Scott's Hut
- Shackleton's Hut
- World Park Base
features
features
| Cliffs | |
|---|---|
| Glaciers | |
| Lakes |
|
| Ridges | |
| Other inland features |
features
| Bays | |
|---|---|
| Headlands | |
| Other coastal features |
