# Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty System is the network of treaties, measures, and institutions governing Antarctica, including the Antarctic Treaty and the [[Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty]].
## Notebook evidence
PDF pages 44–45 of [[Scanned_20260730-1913]] combine territorial claims, treaty timing, historical human presence, the Weddell polynya, icefish biology, robots, and speculative anomaly research.
## Correction: 2048 is not an expiry date
The notebook's “expiry 2048” idea must not be propagated as fact. The environmental protocol does not automatically expire in 2048. That year is associated with the earliest point at which specified review procedures could be invoked, subject to demanding legal conditions. The historical wording remains in the source transcription; the canonical wiki records the correction explicitly.
## Analytical boundary
Treaty governance, biological adaptation, mapping anomalies, and speculative “pyramid” claims are separate evidence classes. Their presence on adjacent pages does not make the speculative claims verified.
## Relationships
[[Antarctic Icefish]] · [[Hemoglobin Loss]] · [[Polynya]] · [[Extreme Adaptation]]
## Source
- [[Scanned_20260730-1913]], PDF pages 44–45 and its cited treaty sources.