McMurdo Station

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1. Story
2. The largest settlement in Antarctica, on the volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula at the southern tip of Ross Island - the furthest south a ship can reach - and operated by the United States Antarctic Program. Its summer population runs to something over a thousand people and falls to a couple of hundred over the winter, which makes the point the Journey turns on: Antarctica's human population is entirely a staffing roster. Nobody is from there. Its position matters because it is the logistics gateway to the polar plateau and to the McMurdo Dry Valleys, and because the fast ice of McMurdo Sound alongside it is where the Weddell seal became one of the best-studied wild mammals on Earth. It sits within the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand - a claim the Antarctic Treaty neither recognises nor denies.
3. Knowledge
4. Antarctica
5. The Antarctic Treaty (1959)
6. McMurdo Station
7. Connections
8. The Antarctic Treaty (1959)
9. Antarctica
10. The International Geophysical Year puts twelve nations on the ice at once
11. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
12. The International Geophysical Year puts twelve nations on the ice at once
13. Antarctica
14. Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Madrid Protocol, 1991)
15. The Svalbard Treaty (1920)
16. McMurdo Station
17. The Antarctic Treaty is signed at Washington
18. The Antarctic Treaty enters into force
19. The Madrid Protocol prohibits Antarctic mining
20. Arctic Ocean
21. Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)
22. Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
23. Halley Bay Emperor Penguin Colony
24. The Antarctic Treaty (1959)
25. McMurdo Station
26. Vostok Station
27. Cook crosses the Antarctic Circle
28. Antarctica is sighted - by whom is disputed
29. Amundsen reaches the South Pole
30. Scott reaches the South Pole and finds he is second
31. The International Geophysical Year puts twelve nations on the ice at once
32. The Antarctic Treaty is signed at Washington
33. The continuous satellite sea-ice record begins
34. Vostok records minus 89.2 degrees Celsius
35. Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
36. The Madrid Protocol becomes open to a review conference
37. Southern Ocean
38. Evidence
39. The Treaty reserves Antarctica for peaceful purposes and prohibits military activity (Article I), guarantees freedom of scientific investigation, freezes the territorial claims question so that no act while it is in force constitutes a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim and no new claim may be made (Article IV), applies to the area south of 60 degrees south (Article VI), and provides for inspection of all stations, installations and equipment by observers designated by consultative parties (Article VII). V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: this session had NO working research channel - WebFetch to ats.aq was refused by the network egress proxy and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before production began. The citation rests on the producer's prior knowledge of the treaty text, not on consultation during production, and must be opened before publication.