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== Chilean Antarctic Territory ==

== Chilean Antarctic Territory ==

{{Main article|Chilean Antarctic Territory}}

{{Main article|Chilean Antarctic Territory}}

[[File:Chilean Antarctic Territory.jpg|thumbnail|The Chilean Antarctic Territory.]]

[[File:Chilean Antarctic Territory.jpg|thumbnail|200px|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]].

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 |author=Pinochet de la Barra, Óscar |title=La Antártica Chilena |date=November 1944 |publisher=Editorial Andrés Bello}}</ref><ref name="Desarrollo">{{cite book |author=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 |author=Pablo  

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 |author=Pinochet de la Barra, Óscar |title=La Antártica Chilena |date=November 1944 |publisher=Editorial Andrés Bello}}</ref><ref name="Desarrollo">{{cite book |author=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 |author=Pablo