Queen Maud Land Explained

Queen Maud Land
Settlement Type:Dependent territory of Norway
Map Alt:Location of Queen Maud Land (highlighted in red)
Mapsize:290px
Subdivision Type:Sovereign state
Subdivision Name: Norway
Established Date:14 January 1939
Established Title2:Dependency status
Established Date2:21 June 1957
Established Title3:Antarctic Treaty
Established Date3:23 June 1961
Established Title4:Expanded
Established Date4:12 June 2015
Established Title5:Sector claim
Established Date5:20°W  - 45°E
Government Type:Dependency under a constitutional monarchy
Leader Title1:Monarch
Leader Name1:Harald V
Leader Title2:Administered by
Leader Name2:Ministry of Justice and Public Security
Area Km2:2,700,000
Elevation Max M:3,148
Elevation M:2,000
Iso Code:AQ
Named For:Maud of Wales

Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly 2.7abbr=offNaNabbr=off[1] region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory.[2] It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addition, a small unclaimed area from 1939 was annexed in June 2015.[3] Positioned in East Antarctica, it makes out about one-fifth of the continent, and is named after the Norwegian Queen Maud (1869–1938).

In 1930, the Norwegian Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen was the first person known to have set foot in the territory. On 14 January 1939, the territory was claimed by Norway. On 23 June 1961, Queen Maud Land became part of the Antarctic Treaty System, making it a demilitarised zone. It is one of two Antarctic claims made by Norway, the other being Peter I Island. They are administered by the Polar Affairs Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security in Oslo.

Most of the territory is covered by the east Antarctic ice sheet, and a tall ice wall stretches throughout its coast. In some areas farther within the ice sheet, mountain ranges breach through the ice, allowing for birds to breed and the growth of a limited flora. The region is divided into, from west to east, the Princess Martha Coast, Princess Astrid Coast, Princess Ragnhild Coast, Prince Harald Coast and Prince Olav Coast:

No.CoastWestern borderEastern borderWidth in
degrees
1Princess Martha Coastalign=right 20° 00′ Walign=right 05° 00′ Ealign=right 25° 00′
2Princess Astrid Coastalign=right 05° 00′ Ealign=right 20° 00′ Ealign=right 15° 00′
3Princess Ragnhild Coastalign=right 20° 00′ Ealign=right 34° 00′ Ealign=right 14° 00′
4Prince Harald Coastalign=right 34° 00′ Ealign=right 40° 00′ Ealign=right 06° 00′
5Prince Olav Coastalign=right 40° 00′ Ealign=right 44° 38′ Ealign=right 04° 38′
 Queen Maud Landalign=right 20° 00′ Walign=right 44° 38′ Ealign=right 64° 38′

The waters off the coast are called the King Haakon VII Sea.

There is no permanent population, although there are 12 active research stations housing a maximum of around 40 scientists, the numbers fluctuating depending on the season. Six are occupied year-round, while the remainder are seasonal summer stations. The main aerodromes for intercontinental flights, corresponding with Cape Town, South Africa, are Troll Airfield, near the Norwegian Troll research station, and a runway at the Russian Novolazarevskaya Station.

Geography

Queen Maud Land extends from the boundary with Coats Land in the west to the boundary with Enderby Land in the east, and is divided into the Princess Martha Coast, Princess Astrid Coast, Princess Ragnhild Coast, Prince Harald Coast and Prince Olav Coast.[4] The territory is estimated to cover around, which roughly corresponds to the sizes of India,[5] Argentina[6] or Kazakhstan.[7] [8] [9] The limits of the claim, put forth in 1939, did not fix the northern and southern limits other than as "the mainland beach in Antarctica ... with the land that lies beyond this beach and the sea beyond".[10] The sea that extends off the coast between the longitudinal limits of Queen Maud Land is generally called King Haakon VII Sea.[11]

There is very limited ice-free land at the coast, in the vicinity of Japan's Showa station. The remainder of the coast consists of a 20to wall of ice almost throughout the entire territory.[12] [13] It is thus only possible to disembark from a ship in a few places.[13] Some 150kmto200kmkm (90milesto100mileskm) from the coast, rocky peaks pierce the ice cap, itself at a mean height of around above sea level, with the highest point at Jøkulkyrkja (3148m (10,328feet)) in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains.[12] The other major mountain ranges are the Heimefront Range, Orvin Mountains, Wohlthat Mountains and Sør Rondane Mountains.

Geologically, the ground of Queen Maud Land is dominated by Precambrian gneiss, formed c. 1 to 1.2 Ga, before the creation of the supercontinent Gondwana. The mountains consist mostly of crystalline and granitic rocks, formed c. 500 to 600 Ma in the Pan-African orogeny during the assembly of Gondwana.[14] In the farthest western parts of the territory, there are younger sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Research on the thickness of the ice has revealed that without the ice, the coast would be similar to those of Norway and Greenland, with deep fjords and islands.[12]

History

Early activity

Queen Maud Land was the first part of Antarctica to be sighted, on 27 January 1820 by Fabian von Bellingshausen. It was however among the last to be explored, as it required aircraft in combination with ships to undertake systematic exploration.[15] Early Norwegian research activities in Antarctica rested entirely on whaling and sealing expeditions funded by ship owners, particularly by Christen Christensen and his son Lars. The first two Norwegian expeditions were carried out by sealing ships in 1892–93 and 1893–94. While they were primarily sent for exploring, sealing, and whaling possibilities, they also performed scientific research.[16] Further Norwegian expeditions were mounted into the first decades of the 20th century.

The Antarctic Plateau was claimed for Norway by Roald Amundsen as the King Haakon VII Plateau when his expedition was the first to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911. It was mapped as a circular territory comprising the plateau around the South Pole, including all the land above latitude 85°S. However, roughly the same area had been claimed by the British as the King Edward VII Plateau, which was in conflict with the Norwegian claim. Amundsen's claim has never been officially claimed by the Norwegian government.[17] [18] [19]

The name Queen Maud Land was initially applied in January 1930 to the land between 37°E and 49°30′E discovered by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Finn Lützow-Holm during Lars Christensen's Norvegia expedition of 1929–30.[15] [12] It was named after the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales, wife of the then-reigning King Haakon VII. The territory was explored further during the Norvegia expedition of 1930–31.[12] During this whaling season, a total of 265 whaling ships, mostly Norwegian, worked off the coast of Queen Maud Land.[20] In the same season, Riiser-Larsen discovered the Prince Olav Coast, Princess Martha Coast and Princess Ragnhild Coast from the air. Captain H. Halvorsen of the whaler Sevilla discovered the Princess Astrid Coast independently at the same time. Six years later, during Christensen's expedition of 1936–37, Viggo Widerøe flew over and discovered the Prince Harald Coast.[15] Negotiations with the British government in 1938 resulted in the western border of Queen Maud Land being set at 20°W.[12]

Norway's claim was disputed by Germany, which in 1938 dispatched the German Antarctic Expedition, led by Alfred Ritscher, to fly over as much of it as possible.[15] [12] The ship Schwabenland reached the pack ice off Antarctica on 19 January 1939.[21] During the expedition, an area of about was photographed from the air by Ritscher,[22] who dropped darts inscribed with swastikas every . Germany eventually attempted to claim the territory surveyed by Ritscher under the name New Swabia, but lost any claim to the land following its defeat in the Second World War.[23]

On 14 January 1939, five days prior to the German arrival, Queen Maud Land was annexed by Norway,[24] by royal decree:[12]

The primary basis for the annexation were the Norwegian explorations and the need to secure the Norwegian whaling industry's access to the region.[25] Scientific operations were also a basis, with Norwegian contributions to international polar science extending back to the late 19th century.[24] Norway was in addition forced to contend with competing claims made by the United Kingdom and other countries in the years prior to the Norwegian claim, including the new threat of German claims in Queen Maud Land.[25] The Norwegian claim was sometimes referred to as the "Bouvet sector", drawing from the previously annexed Bouvet Island.[23] During 1946 and 1947, vast areas of Queen Maud Land were photographed during the Richard Evelyn Byrd expedition. In 1948, Norway and the United Kingdom agreed to limit Queen Maud Land to longitudes from 20°W to 45°E, and that the Bruce Coast and Coats Land were to be incorporated into Norwegian territory.[12]

Later developments

Maudheim
Settlement Type:Antarctic research station
Coordinates Footnotes:[26]
Established Title:Established
Extinct Title:Closed
Government Type:Administration
Governing Body:NBSAE
Population Blank1 Title:Summer
Population Blank2 Title:Winter
Blank Name Sec1:Active times
Blank Info Sec1:All year-round
Blank1 Name Sec1:Activities
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Norway Station
Settlement Type:Antarctic research station
Coordinates Footnotes:[27]
Established Title:Established
Extinct Title:Closed
Government Type:Administration
Governing Body:Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition
Population Blank1 Title:Summer
Population Blank2 Title:Winter
Blank Name Sec1:Active times
Blank Info Sec1:All year-round
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King Baudouin Station
Native Name:Base antarctique Roi Baudouin
Native Name Lang:fr
Settlement Type:Antarctic research station
Coordinates Footnotes:[28]
Established Title:Established
Extinct Title:Closed
Named For:Baudouin of Belgium
Government Type:Administration
Governing Body:Belgian Antarctic Program
Population Blank1 Title:Summer
Population Blank2 Title:Winter
Blank Name Sec1:Active times
Blank Info Sec1:All year-round
Blank1 Name Sec1:Activities
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Lazarev
Native Name:Лазарев
Native Name Lang:ru
Settlement Type:Antarctic research station
Coordinates Footnotes:[29]
Established Title:Established
Extinct Title:Closed
Government Type:Administration
Governing Body:Soviet Antarctic Expedition
Population Blank1 Title:Summer
Population Blank2 Title:Winter
Blank Name Sec1:Active times
Blank Info Sec1:All year-round
Blank1 Name Sec1:Activities
Blank2 Name Sec1:Facilities

The Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1949–52 was the first international scientific expedition in Antarctica. The expedition established its winter quarters at a base called Maudheim at 71°S, 11°W, and mapped much of western Queen Maud Land.[30] [31] During the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958), year-round stations were established in Queen Maud Land by Norway, the Soviet Union, Belgium and Japan. The Norwegian expedition continued with topographical mapping, while the others started geophysical and geological research. Norway's Norway Station was lent to South Africa following the withdrawal of the Norwegian expedition in 1960. South Africa later built the SANAE station, near the now-defunct Norway Station. The Soviet Union, and later Russia, has maintained continual operations, although it moved from Lazarev Station to Novolazarevskaya Station. Japan has been based at its Showa Station since 1957, except for a hiatus of a few years. Belgium closed its King Baudouin Station in 1961, though it mounted limited operations in cooperation with the Netherlands in 1964–66. The United States established the temporary Plateau Station in 1966.[12]

In 1948, the newly created Norwegian Polar Institute was assigned the administration of Norwegian territories in the Arctic and Antarctic, including Queen Maud Land.[32] Norway sent two major expeditions to the territory in the 1940s and 1950s, but its efforts declined after that.[24] On 21 June 1957, Queen Maud Land became subject to Norwegian sovereignty as a dependency (biland),[2] and the Antarctic Treaty officially came into force on 23 June 1961.[33] Norwegian activity during the 1960s was limited to some minor co-expeditions with the United States, until it gradually picked up again following a larger expedition to western Queen Maud Land and the eastern Weddell Sea by the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1976–77.[12] [24]

Founded in 1978,[34] the Polar Affairs Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police, headquartered in Oslo, has been assigned the administration of the Norwegian polar areas including Queen Maud Land.[35] Since 1979, the Norwegian Polar Institute has been a directorate under the Ministry of the Environment.

In 1992, an expedition by Ivar Tollefsen made the first ascents of several mountains, including the tallest, Jøkulkyrkja.[12] Norway established the summer station Troll in 1989–90.[12] [24] In 2003, Minister of the Environment Børge Brende was the first Norwegian minister to visit Queen Maud Land, and he soon allocated funds to expand the Troll station.[36] Troll was upgraded to a year-round station in 2005[12] [24] as part of the centenary of Norway's independence.[36] Among the guests were Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Petersen and Minister of the Environment Knut Arild Hareide,[36] and Troll was officially opened by Queen Sonja of Norway, the first queen to ever visit Antarctica.[37] [38] In 2008, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, accompanied by forty officials, scientists and reporters, became the first Norwegian prime minister to visit Queen Maud Land. He personally named three mountains around the Troll station where he was based, although he chose to sleep outdoors in a tent, rather than in a bed inside. He said the purposes of the visit were to claim Norway's possessions in Antarctica, as well as to learn more about the climate research at Troll, which he said was key to better understanding of global climate change.[37] [38]

In 2015, King Harald V became the world's first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica when he went to Queen Maud Land.[39]

Legal status

Like all other territorial claims in Antarctica, the Norwegian claim of Queen Maud Land (along with its claim of Peter I Island) is subject to the Antarctic Treaty System. The treaty makes clear that Antarctica can only be used for peaceful purposes and assures the freedom of scientific activity. It promotes international scientific cooperation and bans any nuclear-related activities. Although territorial claims are not invalidated by the treaty, all claims under Article III of the treaty are in effect suspended as long as it is in force.[40] [41] [42] Norway, Australia, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have all mutually recognised each other's claims in Antarctica.[43] But there is a question on the actual boundaries of the claim, since the initial Norwegian demarcations both towards the South Pole and into the sea were left unclear. Apparently this was to avoid accepting use of the "sector principle" for Arctic Ocean claims by the Soviet Union.[44] In 2015, Norway partially rectified this question by formally laying its claim to the area between the Queen Maud Land and the South Pole.

Norwegian administration of Queen Maud Land is controlled by the Polar Affairs Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police, located in Oslo.[45] The annexation of the territory is regulated by the Dependency Act of 24 March 1933; Queen Maud Land was added on 21 June 1957. It declares that Norwegian criminal law, private law and procedural law apply to the territory, in addition to other laws that explicitly state they are valid in the territory. Furthermore, it establishes that all the land belongs to the state, and prohibits both nuclear detonations and the storage of nuclear waste.[46]

Since 5 May 1995, Norwegian law has required all Norwegian activity in Antarctica to follow international environmental law for Antarctica. Norwegian citizens who plan activities in Queen Maud Land must therefore report to the Norwegian Polar Institute, which may prohibit any non-compliant activity. Those who visit Queen Maud Land must follow laws regarding protection of nature, treatment of waste, pollution and insurance for search and rescue operations.[47]

Fauna and flora

There are three types of birds around Troll station: the Antarctic petrel, the snow petrel and the south polar skua. The Antarctic petrel lives on the sea ice for most of the year, with the exception of its breeding season (in Antarctica, from November to February), when it moves to the inland mountains and nunataks.[48] The 3.9sqkm area of ice-free cliffs in Princess Astrid Coast called Svarthamaren Mountain hosts Antarctica's largest known inland colony of breeding seabirds, almost 1 million (250,000 pairs) Antarctic petrels.[24] [48] Many snow petrels and south polar skuas also breed in this area. Snow petrels are generally spread out in smaller colonies throughout the mountainous areas of Queen Maud Land. During the breeding season, the south polar skua feeds exclusively upon the eggs, as well as both young and adult birds, of both petrel species.[48]

The emperor penguin has some of its breeding places concentrated in Queen Maud Land.[49] All four of the true Antarctic seals, namely the Weddell seal, leopard seal, crabeater seal and Ross seal, can be found in the King Haakon VII Sea off Queen Maud Land.[50] [51] The Ross seal is notably found in its greatest numbers in the King Haakon VII Sea.[52]

The nunatak areas have a scarcity of flora, limited to lichen, bryophyte and algae. Flowering plants are not found there. The Norwegian Polar Institute has not registered the occurrence of any threatened or rare plants or animals in Queen Maud Land, the known ones thus existing in healthy populations.[50]

Research stations

Queen Maud Land is currently home to at least 13 research stations, six of which are operated year-round. Norway, Germany and Japan all operate both a perennial and a seasonal station. These are the Norwegian Troll and Tor; the German Neumayer Station III and Kohnen; and the Japanese Showa and Dome Fuji. India, Russia and South Africa also operate one permanent station each. Maitri, Novolazarevskaya, and SANAE IV, respectively. The remaining stations are seasonal, and include: the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica base; the Finnish Aboa; the Pakistani Jinnah; and the Swedish Wasa. These stations' total summer population is approximately 494, but with considerably fewer in winter.

These stations are connected by the Dronning Maud Land Air Network Project (DROMLAN), which is a cooperative agreement for transportation between eleven nations with research stations in East Antarctica. Long-range aircraft fly between Cape Town, South Africa and either the Troll Airfield, located at the Troll research station, or the runway at the Novolazarevskaya Station. From these two main airfields, smaller aircraft may fly further to other Antarctic destinations.[37]

Norway's Troll station serves as a major hub of the DROMLAN network through the Troll Airfield.[37] Research at Troll include air and atmospheric measurements,[53] monitoring of greenhouse gases and bird colonies, as well as meteorological and climate research.[36] The other Norwegian station, Tor, was established for researching birds at the breeding colony in Svarthamaren Mountain.[48]

Activities conducted by Russia's Novolazarevskaya Station include environmental monitoring, geodesy/mapping, geomagnetic and meteorological observations, glaciology, biology, ionosphericauroral observations, limnology, geology, geophysics and seismology.[54]

South Africa's SANAE IV station, the successor to three former stations, was completed in 1997. Research at SANAE IV include invasion biology/ecology, geology, geomorphology and atmospheric sciences. Its facilities include a small hospital and a two-helicopter hangar.[55]

The Swedish Wasa station and the Finnish Aboa station together make up the Nordenskiöld Base, and cooperate in research and logistics. Research carried out includes geodesy/mapping, glaciology, human biology, meteorological observations, geology and geophysics.[56]

The German Neumayer Station III, finished in 2009, succeeded two former stations that were buried by snow and ice.[20] It conducts geophysical, meteorological and seismological research, as well as air chemistry measurements and atmospheric ozone monitoring.[57] Germany's other station, Kohnen, was opened as part of a major ice-drilling project.[58]

The Maitri station succeeded the Dakshin Gangotri station in 1989, India's first Antarctic base.[59] Maitri's research focus on geology, and the study of the supercontinent Gondwana, when India and Antarctica belonged to the same landmass. It also includes low-temperature engineering research that is relevant to conditions in the Himalayas.[60]

The Showa Station is Japan's main research station in Antarctica. A vast array of research is conducted there, including upper atmosphere physics, meteorology, seismology, gravimetry, geodesy/mapping, oceanography, glaciology, geology, marine and terrestrial biology, and medical research.[61] Japan's other station, Dome Fuji Station was opened as part of a major ice-coring project.[15] It mainly studies climate change and conducts deep drilling and atmospheric observations.[62]

Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica base was established as a project to promote polar sciences, as well as to demonstrate the possibility of building a zero emission station.[63] Research is conducted by an international team of scientists, studying climatology, glaciology and microbiology.[64]

Popular culture

Queen Maud Land is featured in the 2021 video game Battlefield 2042 as the setting of the multiplayer map Breakaway.[65]

A Norwegian pop group is known as , which translates to Queen Maud Land.[66]

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