Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

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1. Story
2. An area of about 50 million square kilometres surrounding Antarctica in which the IWC has prohibited commercial whaling, adopted in 1994 with 23 states in favour and Japan opposed. Its northern boundary follows 40°S except in the Indian Ocean sector, where it meets the Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary at 55°S, and around South America and into the South Pacific, where it is at 60°S. Its status is reviewed by the Commission every ten years, which means it is a standing political decision rather than a settled fact - a distinction that matters for a species whose recovery is measured over generations longer than the review cycle.
3. Knowledge
4. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
5. International Whaling Commission
6. Southern Ocean
7. Connections
8. International Whaling Commission
9. Southern Ocean
10. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
11. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
12. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
13. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
14. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
15. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
16. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
17. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
18. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
19. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
20. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
21. Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration
22. South Georgia
23. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
24. Seasonal Krill Aggregation
25. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
26. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
27. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
28. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
29. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
30. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
31. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
32. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
33. CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
34. A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
35. CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
36. Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
37. Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)
38. Antarctica
39. Thermohaline Circulation
40. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
41. Weddell Sea
42. A circumpolar current becomes possible
43. Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell
44. A physics-based early warning signal is proposed
45. Evidence
46. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was established by the IWC in 1994, with 23 states in favour and Japan opposed, covering about 50 million square kilometres around Antarctica; its northern boundary follows 40°S except in the Indian Ocean sector, where it meets the Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary at 55°S, and around South America and into the South Pacific, where it is at 60°S. Its status is reviewed every ten years. V55 verification basis: iwc.int is blocked by this environment's egress proxy; the boundary description comes from search summaries and reference works, not from the IWC Schedule text.