… 1911 : Roald Amundsen and his four companions become the first men to reach the geographic South Pole. They raise the Norwegian flag on the Pole on 14 December. … is prohibited, on freedom of international scientific exchange and free exchange of information, and on the suspension of several countries' territorial claims. 1964 : … attempted to establish regulations on mineral resource activities in Antarctica. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have …

… the noise sources in the sea and the inherent danger they pose for the marine environment. Whales and seals depend on their sense of hearing for survival. … such as the use of airguns to explore the ocean floor can also damage the hearing system (acoustic trauma) of a marine mammal and result in short-term or even … range necessary for communication or for finding food, or it may reduce the information which ambient signals contain. These effects depend in particular on the …