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Brazilian Antarctica (Portuguese:Antártida Brasileira orAntártica Brasileira) is theAntarctic territory south of60°S, and from28°W to53°W, tenuously proposed but unclaimed as a "zone of interest" by geopolitical scholar Therezinha de Castro.[1][2][3] While the substance of that designation has never been precisely defined, it does not formally contradict theArgentine andBritish claims geographically overlapping with that zone (the zone shares a border but does not overlap with theChilean Antarctic Territory to its west). The country formally expressed its reservations with respect to its territorial rights in Antarctica when it acceded to theAntarctic Treaty on 16 May 1975, making the first official mention of the Frontage Theory, which states (simplified) that sovereignty over each point in Antarctica properly (bar theSouth Pole itself) belongs to the first country whose non-Antarctic territory one would reach when travelling north in a straight line from such a point.[4][5] The Frontage Theory (Teoria da Defrontação) was proposed by Brazilian geopolitical scholar Therezinha de Castro and published in her bookAntártica: Teoria da Defrontação.
Outside the zone of interest, Brazil maintains a permanently staffed research facility, theComandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base (UN/LOCODE: AQ-CFZ), located inAdmiralty Bay,King George Island, near the tip of theAntarctic Peninsula, at62°08′S58°40′W / 62.133°S 58.667°W /-62.133; -58.667. The peninsula is the northernmost, most accessible, and warmest part of the Antarctic continent and a number of countries, therefore, have research bases located on it.
75°00′S40°30′W / 75.000°S 40.500°W /-75.000; -40.500
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