how were the boundary lines in antarctica drawn up and why were the drawn as straight lines?
2006-04-01 04:32:26 UTC
how were the boundary lines in antarctica drawn up and why were the drawn as straight lines?
Two answers:
2006-04-01 04:38:39 UTC
It is an arbitrary geopolitical map. It was drawn by government cartographers. There were no permanent settlements, so one could simply draw a line down a map based on lattitude and longitude. This was easy, try Yugoslavia.
Shailendra Singh
2006-04-01 04:34:04 UTC
while getting division of continents, antarticas get pulled by stongest magnectic force, so remained aliened
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