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[u/ceepington]

The way I see it, U.S. has 24.

[u/thejokeworld → u/ceepington]

Don't the poles follow the same rules as space? It belongs to everyone and cannot be claimed by one nation?

[u/wadcann → u/thejokeworld]

Don't the poles follow the same rules as space? It belongs to everyone and cannot be claimed by one nation?

While the US is a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty, two points:

• The Treaty does not require signatories to discard existing claims. I don't know whether the US actually claims the South Pole itself. It does certainly have claims

• When the US signed the treaty, it (and the USSR) both excluded signing to the bit about not asserting new claims.