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What if, rather than simply not enforcing antarctic claims, it was decided that, though Antarctica should be completely demilitarized, that it should be officialy divided?
According to the map on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antarctica.jpg), Though the Australian, French, New Zealandian, and Norwegian claims do not overlap, the British, Argentinan, and Chilean claims overlap very much so. How would these claims be solved? I can see Chile being given the unclaimed are between its claims and New Zealands in exchange for giving up it's claims on the disputed area, but I don't see how Argentina and the UK can divide up the area without either side making a large concession- which one would be more likely to do so? (It is just a vast icecube, after all... But considering that in OTL Argentina actually invaded the tiny Falkland Islands, would they be willing to compromise on the much larger Argentine Antarctic? I'm not so sure about Britain, either..)
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