With the global climate changes military-backed oil-savvy claims-making in the Arctic has already become a reality. Some of the powerful rivalries have been established between Canada/USA vs. Russia, with non-Arctic nations such as China also asserting itself in the Arctic and inaugurating its icebreaker fleet and sending pandas to Denmark as a sign of intentions to develop closer collaboration in mining in Greenland. Hillary Clinton’s Montreal address in 2014 summoned US and Canada to form a unified front against Russia, which as claimed by Clinton has been aggressively reopening its airbases in the Arctic. The developments in the Arctic where there is no claimed land mass, but ice may suggest and develop a very negative scenario for the claims-making in Antarctica, which has overlapping claims between the countries. The “bad” example of the Arctic “ice-seabed-grab” scenario may be followed by the land-grab in the Antarctica after the Peaceful Antarctic Treaty expires in 2041. Where there is a potentiality of the conflict between Chile, Argentina and UK. Chile and Argentina remain most vociferous about their overlapping claims. In both countries, it is illegal to display a map not showing the nation’s claimed Antarctic territory. All three nations have negative experience in solving their border disputes and land-claims. Despite “scientific” purpose of Antarctica some countries like Argentina and Chile man their stations with the military, that manage the stations and provide most of the logistics (also for international research teams). Falkland/Malvinas conflict showed how precious the isolated particles of the landmass can be if they are to be used for resource-exploration or as stepping stones for this exploration

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Militarization, Arctic, NSR, hydrocarbon exploration