Does antarctica have a passport

Although there are no native Antarcticans and no permanent residents or citizens of Antarctica, many people do live in Antarctica each year.

The passport created by the Ortas is a symbolic proposal for a new nation of humanity based upon the foundation of the 2007 Antarctic Village. … The passport may be issued to any person wishing to become a citizen of the world allowing them to travel freely.

Sometimes, it’s something as simple as a pebble from a beach. However, in Antarctica, taking anything is banned. This includes rocks, feathers, bones, eggs and any kind of biological material including traces of soil. Taking anything man-made is also completely banned, as some might actually be research equipment.

Eleven babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants. Antarctica therefore has the lowest infant mortality rate of any continent: 0%. What’s crazier is why the babies were born there in the first place.

No-one lives in Antarctica indefinitely in the way that they do in the rest of the world. It has no commercial industries, no towns or cities, no permanent residents. The only “settlements” with longer term residents (who stay for some months or a year, maybe two) are scientific bases.

Antarctica does not have a president or prime minister. The Antarctic Treaty is a decentralised system of governance, with no executive leader.

Antarctica has no universally-recognized flag as the condominium that governs the continent has not yet formally selected one, although some individual Antarctic programs have formally adopted True South as the flag of the continent. Dozens of unofficial designs have also been proposed.

Anyone known to be enceinte should not serve in the Antarctic or the Arctic. Recommendations: Everyone serving in the Antarctic / Arctic has a responsibility to minimise the chance of personnel becoming enceinte. Every effort to ensure adequate contraception should be used. (see below).