BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORYsome data of the territory |
| PARTS of the TERRITORY: | capital | surface/sq.km | surface/sq.mi | e1990 | particulars | variants of the name | |||
| source: | EW | ||||||||
| British claim consists of territories south of latitude 60S and between longitudes 20W and 80W | |||||||||
| Antarctic Peninsula | none | includes areas south and east of the Weddell Sea | |||||||
| British sector of Antarctica | none | there are some 50 people present in the Antarctic winter, rising to some 150-300 in summer | |||||||
| South Orkney Islands | none | ||||||||
| South Shetland Islands | none | ||||||||
| this territory was created as a British colony on 1962-03-03 | |||||||||
| TOTAL: | none | 1710000 | 660000 | 0,2 | there is no permanent population, temporary inhabitants are scientists and support personnel |
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