1774 Circumnavigated by Captin James Cook
1819 First Sighting by William Smith
1959 Antarctic Treaty Sighned
1961 Treaty enforced
2004 Secretariat inaugurated
Antarctic Claims
1908 UK
1923 New Zealand
1924 France
1933 Australia
1938 Norway
1939 Germany (until 1945)
1940 Chile
1943 Argentina
1963 South Africa (Claim abandond 1994)
1986 Brazil
Antarctic Treaty
1961 Argentina
1961 Australia
1961 Belgium
1961 Chile
1961 France
1961 Japan
1961 New Zealand
1961 Norway
1961 Poland
1961 South Africa
1961 USSR (as Russia from 1991)
1961 UK
1961 USA
1962 Czechoslovakia (as Czech Republic from 1993)
1967 Netherlands
1971 Romania
1974 DDR (as Germany from 1990)
1975 Brazil
1978 Bugaria
1979 Germany
1980 Uraguay
1981 Papua New Guinea
1981 Italy
1981 Peru
1982 Spain
1983 China
1983 India
1984 Hungary
1984 Sweden
1984 Cuba
1986 South Korea
1987 Greece
1987 North Korea
1987 Austria
1987 Ecuador
1988 Canada
1989 Colombia
1990 Switzerland
1991 Guatemala
1992 Ukraine
1993 Slovakia
1996 Turkey
1999 Venezuela
2001 Estonia
Executive Secretaries
2004- Johannas Huber
