Uruguayan Antarctica ( es, Antártida Uruguaya) is the sector of
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
where Professor Julio César Musso believes the
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
should exercise its sovereignty. It was not assigned a specific definition nor meant a territorial claim, but rather was intended as an area of natural action of the southern maritime projection of Uruguay. Uruguay is part of the
Antarctic Treaty System as a consulting member, and it reserved the right to make a territorial claim.
Uruguayan Antarctica Day
Bill of 1985
On May 8, 1985, then-
Senator Luis Alberto Lacalle
Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, GCMG (; ''Lacalle'' locally or ; born 13 July 1941), is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer who served as President of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995.
Background
His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, ...
introduced a new bill in order to point a day in the year as the "Uruguayan Antarctica Day" (''Día de la Antártida Uruguaya'') and promote the study and dissemination of the issue among the younger generations. In the preamble, Lacalle argued that "we have chosen the 28th of August, as the foundation of the
Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, inspired by the teachings of Professor Julio C. Musso, has been the area where the Antarctic vocation of our country was born and raised."
[Día de la Antártida Uruguaya. (Carp. 177, Rep. 99) - Montevideo, 8 de mayo de 1985. Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera, Senador]
EXPOSICION DE MOTIVOS
See also
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Uruguayan Antarctic Institute
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Brazilian Antarctica
Brazilian Antarctica ( pt, Antártida Brasileira or ''Antártica Brasileira'') is the Antarctic territory south of 60°S, and from 28°W to 53°W, proposed as "Zone of Interest" by geopolitical scholar Therezinha de Castro. While the substance ...
References
External links
Instituto Antártico UruguayoAsociación AntarkosProyección a la Antártida "Programa radial"
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Territorial claims in Antarctica