Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty

Measure 3 (2003) - ATCM XXVI - CEP VI, Madrid

  • Subject

    Revised List of Historic Sites and Monuments

  • Status

    Effective 18/09/2003 (Fast Approval)

  • Category

    Historic Sites and Monuments
    Area protection and management

  • Topics

    - "Operation 90" flag mast (HSM 1)
    - Aguirre Cerda Station ruins (HSM 76)
    - Amundsen’s cairn (HSM 24)
    - Anatoly Shcheglov´s Monument (HSM 8)
    - Antarctic Message Post (HSM 65)
    - Base E (HSM 64)
    - Base F Wordie House (HSM 62)
    - Base Marret (HSM 47)
    - Base Y (HSM 63)
    - Belgrano station's cross (HSM 43)
    - Borchgrevink's 'Southern Cross' Hut - Cape Adare Scott's Northern Party Hut (remnant) (HSM 22)
    - Bunger Hill Pillar (HSM 49)
    - Buromsky Island (HSM 9)
    - Buromsky Island Cemetery (HSM 9)
    - Bust of Arturo Prat (HSM 34)
    - Ceremonial facilities of the Esperanza Baset (HSM 40)
    - Ceremonial facilities of the San Martín Base (HSM 26)
    - Charcot cairn (HSM 27)
    - Charcot's cairn of 1904 (HSM 28)
    - Corvette Uruguay Cairn (HSM 60)
    - Dakshin Gangotri (HSM 44)
    - Dallman Expedition Plaque (HSM 36)
    - De-listed (HSM 12)
    - De-listed (HSM 13)
    - De-listed (HSM 25)
    - De-listed (HSM 31)
    - De-listed (HSM 58)
    - Discovery's Message Post (HSM 69)
    - East Base (HSM 55)
    - Endurance Memorial Site (HSM 53)
    - Fukushima's Rock Cairn (HSM 2)
    - Gerlache Expedition Plaque (HSM 45)
    - Granite House (HSM 67)
    - Grave of Nicolai Hanson - Cape Adare (HSM 23)
    - Great Wall Station Monolith (HSM 52)
    - Hells Gate Moraine depot site (HSM 68)
    - Hillary's TAE/IGY Hut 'A', Geomagnetic Huts ‘G’ and ‘H’ (HSM 75 )
    - Historic remains of Antarctic's crew in Paulet island (HSM 41)
    - Hope Bay stone hut (HSM 39)
    - HSMs - general
    - Hydrographic monolith (HSM 32)
    - Ivan Khmara's Stone (HSM 7)
    - Kharma's Stone (HSM 7)
    - Laurie island observatories (HSM 42)
    - Lenin's Bust (HSM 4)
    - Lighthouse ‘Primero de Mayo’ (HSM 29)
    - MacFarlane's Plaque (HSM 57)
    - Mawson's Rock Cairn - Cape Bruce (HSM 5)
    - Mawson's Rock Cairn - Proclamation Island (HSM 3)
    - Mikkelsen Cairn (HSM 72)
    - Mount Erebus Cross (HSM 73)
    - O´Higgins (HSM 37)
    - Oasis Station Observatory (HSM 10)
    - Observation Hill Cross - Observation Hill, Ross Island (HSM 20)
    - O'Higgins Historic site (HSM 37)
    - Pole of Inaccessibility Station building (HSM 4)
    - Polish Eagle Plaque (HSM 50)
    - Port Lockroy (HSM 61)
    - Port-Martin, Terre-Adélie (HSM 46)
    - Prestrud’s Cairn (HSM 66)
    - Prudhomme's Cross (HSM 48)
    - Puchalski Grave (HSM 51)
    - Richard Byrd's Bust (HSM 54)
    - Rock Hut - Cape Crozier, Ross Island (HSM 21)
    - San Telmo Cairn (HSM 59)
    - Scott's 'Discovery' Hut - Hut Point, Ross Island (HSM 18)
    - Scott's Message Post (HSM 70)
    - Scott's 'Terra Nova' Hut - Cape Evans, Ross Island (HSM 16)
    - Shackleton's 'Nimrod' Hut - Cape Royds, Ross Island (HSM 15)
    - Shcheglov's Monument (HSM 8)
    - Shelter at Paradise Harbour (HSM 30)
    - Shelter González-Pacheco (HSM 33)
    - Site of Northern Party ice cave - Inexpressible Island (HSM 14)
    - Snow hill Swedish hut (HSM 38)
    - Soviet Expedition Cemetery (HSM 9)
    - Soviet Oasis Station Observatory (HSM 10)
    - Statue of Virgen del Carmen (Our Lady of Carmel) and wooden cross (HSM 35)
    - Un-Named Cove (HSM 74)
    - Vince's Cross - Hut Point, Ross Island (HSM 19)
    - Vostok Station Tractor (HSM 11)
    - Waterboat Point Hut (HSM 56)
    - Whalers Bay (HSM 71)
    - Wilkins's Cairn (HSM 6)
    - Wind Vane Hill Cross - Cape Evans, Ross Island (HSM 17)

  • Attachments

  • Relevant Final Report paragraph

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  • Memo

    Revised and updated list of Historic Sites and Monuments adopted by Measure 19 (2015)

ANTARCTIC PROTECTED AREAS SYSTEM:
REVISED LIST OF HISTORIC SITES AND MONUMENTS

The Representatives,

Recalling Recommendations I-IX, V-4, VI-14, VII-9, XII-7, XIII-16, XIV-8, XV-12, XVI-11, XVII-3 and Measures 4 (1995), 2 (1996), 4 (1997), 2 (1998), 1 (2001) and 2 (2001);

Noting the requirements of Article 8 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty to maintain a list of current Historic Sites and Monuments and that such sites shall not be damaged, removed or destroyed;

Desiring to update the descriptions of Historic Site and Monument numbers 5, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74;

Desiring also to remove from the list those Historic Sites and Monuments numbered
25, 31 and 58, which no longer exist;

Recommend that their Governments, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 8 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, approve that the "List of Historic Monuments Identified and Described by the Proposing Government or Governments" (annexed to Recommendation VII-9 and modified by the Recommendations and Measures recalled above) be terminated and replaced by the revised and updated "List of Historic Sites and Monuments" annexed to this Measure.