 It does not get much more south in Southern Chile than this, the Chilean territory in Antartica. The Chilean goverment maintains a military base in Antartica, and southern Chile is also the transit point for many other countries that maintain research stations in Antartica.
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The power games that threaten world’s last pristine wilderness
James Bone, Times Online reporter, covering the recent visit of the U.N. sececretary General to the Chilean research post in Antartica to see first hand the rapid environmental changes taking place in Antartica, and the impact on the small contingency of Chilean families that live there. As the ice melts in Antartica, the politics of Antartica's future is getting progressively more complicated as the possibility of oil exploration becomes possible.
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Antartica
