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In spite of the Antarctic Treaty provision, which states that "no acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting, or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica," some signatories have taken what appear to be assertive steps. For example, both Argentina and Chile publish their claimed Antarctic sectors on their official national maps, and both have established hotels and post offices. Chile has placed whole families in residence at its Antarctic stations, with schools, banks, and other evidence of "effective occupation," including the birth of a child. An Argentinian child was born at Argentina's Esperanza Station in the late 1970s.
In spite of the Antarctic Treaty provision, which states that "no acts or activities taking place while the present Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting, or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica," some signatories have taken what appear to be assertive steps. For example, both Argentina and Chile publish their claimed Antarctic sectors on their official national maps, and both have established hotels and post offices. Chile has placed whole families in residence at its Antarctic stations, with schools, banks, and other evidence of "effective occupation," including the birth of a child. An Argentinian child was born at Argentina's Esperanza Station in the late 1970s.
=== Chilean Antarctic Territory ===
{{Main article|Chilean Antarctic Territory}}
[[File:Chilean Antarctic Territory.jpg|thumbnail|The Chilean Antarctic Territory.]]
Chilean sovereignty over Antarctica is the only one backed by legal titles among all the countries interested in it, has immediate proximity to Antarctica, without covering enormous distances, and with only one maritime route, so its rights are not colonialist unlike those of all the other nations that claim territory there. The territory belongs to the commune of ''Antártica'' in the ''Antártica Chilena'' Province of the [[Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region]].
Chile has the advantage, moreover, of a privileged and extended location towards its Antarctic possessions, which all other countries lack. While this would suggest that the Chilean situation is highly favorable to its position with respect to Antarctic territory, there are several claims to the same territory and the surrender policies of recent years have jeopardized years of efforts to consolidate Chilean territorial rights over the white continent. Even so, there is no other country in the world with legal titles and historical or geographical arguments as solid as those of the Chilean Antarctic territory.<ref name="Oscar">{{cite book |author1=Pinochet de la Barra, Óscar |title=La Antártica Chilena |date=November 1944 |publisher=Editorial Andrés Bello}}</ref><ref name="Desarrollo">{{cite book |author1=Francisco Orrego Vicuña; Augusto Salinas Araya |title=Desarrollo de la Antártica |date=1977 |publisher=Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile; Editorial Universitaria. |location=[[Santiago de Chile]] |url=https://libros.uchile.cl/files/presses/1/monographs/328/submission/proof/38/ |language=es }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Mancilla González, Pablo |title=Antecedentes históricos sobre el Territorio Antártico Chileno conocidos hacia la década de 1950 |url=http://repositorioantartica.umag.cl/handle/20.500.11894/209 |publisher=Repositorio Antártica, Universidad de Magallanes |access-date=25 August 2022 |location=[[Punta Arenas]] |language=es |date=July 1, 2011 |archive-date=19 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819194935/http://repositorioantartica.umag.cl/handle/20.500.11894/209 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Calamari, Andrea |title=El conjurado que gobernó la Antártida |url=https://www.jotdown.es/2022/06/el-conjurado-que-goberno-la-antartida/ |publisher=Jot Down |language=es |date=June 2022}}</ref><ref name=HistoryOfTheFrontiers>{{cite book|author1=Lagos Carmona, Guillermo|title=Los Títulos Históricos – Historia de las Fronteras de Chile|date=1985|publisher=Andrés Bello|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlY7Lg5p9A4C|language=es}}</ref>
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