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fmc83 said:

Didn't realize, that the UK tried to be a superpower during the Falkland war (they've won it anyway). I've always thought, they just wanted to keep their base close to the antarctica, to be able to get some of the possibly found natural reserves later on. But I might be wrong on that.

Falkland War is odd politically but that aside from that we do have a 'British Antartic Territory' which is under United Kingdom govern and owned by our head of state. So base close to antartic was not the issue there.

 



Hmm, pie.