{"id":1145,"date":"2026-12-01T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-12-01T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:58:48","slug":"antarctic-treaty-was-signed-by-twelve-nations-in-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Treaty Was Signed by Twelve Nations in 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11324\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11324\" class=\"wp-image-11324 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Antarctic-town-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antarctic Research Facility<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Antarctic Treaty was signed by twelve nations in 1959<\/strong>. The original twelve countries are: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Soviet Union, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States. Today 50 countries recognize the treaty. The continent will be kept as a scientific preserve, and no nation can colonize it. Children can learn about the Antarctic Treaty at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ats.aq\/index_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antarctic Treaty<\/a>. They can view great pictures of Antarctic animals at: <a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/photos\/antarctic-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antarctic Animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic Treaty was signed by twelve nations in 1959. The original twelve countries are: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Soviet Union, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States. Today 50 countries recognize the treaty. The continent will be kept as a scientific preserve, and no nation can colonize it. Children can <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1145' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4368,4367,230,3111,513,981,4365,408,999,963,2029,4369,1972,172,407],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4368","tag-antarctic-treaty","tag-argentina","tag-australia","tag-belgium","tag-chile","tag-december-1","tag-france","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-norway","tag-russia-as-soviet-union","tag-south-africa","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28773,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/28773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}