Policy paper

British Antarctic Territory: conserving and protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage

This document is the Government of the British Antarctic Territory's first strategy about how we will conserve and protect our Underwater Cultural Heritage.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Published
17 December 2018

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Headline strategy for the conservation and protection of underwater cultural heritage in the British Antarctic Territory

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This new strategy document supplements the British Antarctic Territory’s (BAT’s) existing Heritage Strategy. It sets out:

  • the Territory’s policy on protecting the UK’s Antarctic underwater heritage
  • the methods for doing this
  • clear future actions for the government and its stakeholders

The BAT Administration is grateful for the efforts of the organisations that drafted this strategy on our behalf:

  • the Marine Archeological Sea Trust

  • Plymouth University Law School

  • Bournemouth University

This strategy is published to coincide with the start of the Weddell Sea Expedition, which aims to discover Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic lost ship, the Endurance.

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Published 17 December 2018

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