Signed in 1959 and effective since 1961, the Antarctic Treaty is a landmark international agreement that designates ...

American mountaineer Evan Miller walks towards the crater rim of Mount Erebus, the Earth's southernmost active volcano. Antarctica truly is like nowhere else on Earth. Almost entirely covered in ice, ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The Antarctic Treaty is a ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war ...

It was on Dec. 1st, 1959, that the international community signed an agreement with some important principles. The treaty was signed in Washington by the twelve countries whose scientists had been ...