What lies in store for Antarctica, the world’s last repository? | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “A historic discovery was made on January 28, 1820. A Russian navy expedition under the command of Faddei Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev sighted the last of the remaining unexplored continents – Antarctica.
Consequently, Russians were the third and last nationality, after the Spaniards who discovered America and the Dutch who found Australia, to discover an unknown continent.
Today, Antarctica is interesting because it is legally ‘no one’s,’ property, i.e. no one country owns its territory and it is not divided into any zones or sectors. It is accessible to all. The only question is how much longer this status will continue.”