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THE spread of sovereignty to polar regions has resulted in various measures of authority in uninhabited or sparsely habited lands. These vary from the effective jurisdiction of Denmark in western Greenland and the police control of Arctic Canada to the merely nominal jurisdiction without resident authority in the British claims in the Ross and Falkland dependencies in the Antarctic. As the rule, the authority is exercised solely in the interests of the native fauna, and is aimed at restricting the destruction of game and at the same time levying some tribute on hunter and whaler.
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State Control of Exploration. Nature 122, 597–598 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122597a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122597a0