@nixcails

11 months ago

Antarctica has always interested me especially as I live near the Captain Scott Monument about 2 miles away in Devonport next to the Naval Base that serves as the homeport for the British Antarctic Survey Fleet. The base regularly has the Red and White Fleet in and I know people who work on the vessels. The RNAS (Royal Navy Antarctic Survey) Fleet is a strong employer. The oddity of the British Antarctic Territory is it is a territory of the Crown rather than an actual part of the UK and significantly larger than most of Crown Realms put together (only Canada exceeds it in size). Technically whilst things like fishing, nuclear weapons and other industrial items are banned the loopholes are often got round in the name of research and global security. One of the major reasons for the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict (Guerra de Las Malvinas) apart from a political distraction technique for both the Argentine President and UK Prime Minister at the time. The big thing was fishing and minerals rights in the UK territories waters that are around the former whaling station islands OUTSIDE of the Antarctic exclusion zone. This generate revenues for the countries with these islands. It's also an unkept secret that NATO and other world navies use the South Atlantic/ Great Southern Ocean/ South Pacific to base their Nuclear capable Nuclear powered submarines. If official documentation is they were on patrol in those Oceans their is little evidence to prove they were there.

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