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The Australian Antarctic Division is the name of a slice of Antarctica claimed by Australia: it was not discovered. As part of Australia's participation in the Antarctic Treaty System from the beginning, the nation-state claimed part of the continent.

This claim overlaps the French claim.

The treaty, furthermore, prohibits future claims and holds all existing claims, including this one, in abeyance.

Final signatures were inked on the treaty in 1960 and it went into effect the next year.

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