Antarctica - created from Mind Map

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Tourism

growing

Sustainability

who's land?

buildings?

The 'gray pound'

extreme environment

46000 tourist a year

skiing

photographers

100 passengers per site

IAATO

demand for water

10% of sites damaged

International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators

one ship per site

No waste

power stations?

Resource Exploitation

Oil and Mining

Whaling

Fishing

Currently banned

Oil in Southern Ocean

Madrid Protocol 1998

TEP leaks 35 times per year

review 2048

Factory Ships

250,000 Blue Whales to 1000

banned in 1994

Still allowed for Research

worth $1 million

CCAMLR

not sustainable

Quotas

1982

Arctic Rock Cod can no longer be fished

Krill

reproduction rates low -PTF

food chains

Government

Antactic treaty

No natives

Fragile

who gets profits?

1961

12 countries

no military presents or mineral extraction

share scientific Research

who's land?

need for oil

Ecosystem

Fragile

highly linked food chains

very adapted organisms

short growing season

two types of flowering plants

can not adapt to change

low light levels

over fishing Krill

Geography

Southern Ocean

Larger than Europe

high altitude

'cold desert'

14 million km2

Transantactic Mountains

150mm precipitation per year

Antarctica