1# @(#)antarctica 7.3
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3# From Arthur David Olson (February 13, 1988): 4# No data available.
| 3# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 4# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; 5# see <URL:http://earth.agu.org/amen/nations.html> (1996-05-24). 6# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 7# 8# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! 9# FORMAT is `___' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
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8# British Antarctic Territories include 9# South Orkney Is 10# South Shetland Is
| 12# Argentina - 6 year-round bases 13# General Belgrano II 14# 5 others
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12# Bouvet 13# uninhabited
| 16# Australia - territories 17# Heard Island, McDonald Islands 18# 19# year-round bases 20# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, since 1969 21# Davis, Vestfold Hills, since 1957-01-13 (except 1965-01 - 1969-02) 22# Mawson, Holme Bay, since 1954-02-13 23# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 24Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - ___ 1969 25 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time 26#Zone Antartica/Davis unknown 27Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - ___ 1954 Feb 13 28 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time 29# References: 30# <URL:http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html> (1996-07-15) 31# <URL:http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html> (1996-04-19)
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15# French Southern and Antarctic Lands (no indigenous inhabitants) include 16# Amsterdam Island 17# Crozet Is 18# Kerguelen Is 19# St Paul Island
| 33# Brazil - year-round base 34# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4
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21# Heard Island, McDonald Is 22# uninhabited
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| 38# China - year-round bases 39# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 40# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, since 1989-02-26 41 42# Finland - year-round base 43# Aboa, Queen Maud Land, since 1988 44 45# France 46# 47# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 48# Amsterdam Island 49# Crozet Islands 50# Kerguelen Islands 51# St Paul Island 52# 53# year-round base 54# Dumont d'Urville, Adelie Land, since IGY 55 56# Germany - year-round base 57# Georg von Neumayer 58 59# India - year-round base 60# Dakshin Gangotri 61 62# Japan - year-round bases 63# Dome Fuji 64# Syowa 65 66# S Korea - year-round base 67# King Sejong, King George Island, since 1988 68 69# New Zealand - claims 70# Balleny Islands
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| 72# 73# year-round base 74# Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo. 75# 76# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file. 77# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 78Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 79Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 80Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 81Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 82Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 83Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 84Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 85 86# Norway - territories 87# Bouvet (uninhabited) 88# 89# claims 90# Peter I Island (uninhabited) 91 92# Poland - year-round base 93# Arctowski, King George Island, since 1977 94 95# Russia - year-round bases 96# Bellingshausen, King George Island 97# Mirny 98# Molodezhnaya 99# Novolazarevskaya 100# Vostok 101 102# S Africa - year-round bases 103# Marion Island 104# Sanae 105 106# UK 107# 108# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 109# South Orkney Islands 110# South Shetland Islands 111# 112# year-round bases 113# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-2619, since 1956-01-06 114# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 115 116# Uruguay - year round base 117# Artigas, King George Island 118 119# USA - year-round bases 120# 121# Palmer, Anvers Island 122# 123# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1956 124# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 125Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - ___ 1956 126 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT 127# 128# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, since 1957-01-23 129# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 130# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the 131# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. 132# 133# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-27): 134# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 135# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 136# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 137# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 138# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 139# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 140# 141# From Susan Smith <URL:http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html> 142# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300): We use the same time as McMurdo does. 143# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 144# One last quirk about South Pole time. 145# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 146# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 147# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 148# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 149# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 150# 151Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole
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