The Uncertain Future of Marie Byrd Land

Wedged within the southern lands of Antarctica there's a huge area of land not claimed by any country. Here geopolitics, geography, environmental sciences, and history are all bound to collide, leaving us only able to guess as to what the future holds for this land. Help support me on patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro Music: https://soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music/ice-age-4 Sources / further reading: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-32934-X_37 https://www.livescience.com/antarctica-greenland-ice-loss-map-nasa.html https://www.researchgate.net/figure/BEDMAP-digital-ice-thickness-model-of-Antarctica-Ice-thickness-is-given-in-meters_fig12_234382763 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/huge-atmospheric-rivers-could-quicken-antarctic-ice-melt/ https://theconversation.com/antarctica-has-lost-3-trillion-tonnes-of-ice-in-25-years-time-is-running-out-for-the-frozen-continent-98176 https://sites.uci.edu/morlighem/dataproducts/bedmachine-antarctica/ https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/activity_of_USA_in_antarctica.php https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd26.htm https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1952/feb/20/falkland-islands-dependencies-hope-bay https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1989/8926/892606.PDF https://www.universetoday.com/tag/marie-byrd-land/ http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/glacier-recession/glaciers-and-climate-change/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea02wCVIfh8