Antarctica should be considered a quasi-global public domain  Global apartment domains are areas and resources outside national jurisdiction  It belongs to all mankind and is accessible to all  The Antarctic Treaty's shelving of the issue of Antarctic territorial sovereignty laid the legal foundation for Antarctica as a quasi-global commons, while the provisions of openness, peace and freedom of scientific research have in fact given the Antarctic commons its character  This makes the Antarctic region a rare piece of clean land during the Cold War
The dominance of Antarctic governance has long been in the hands of a few technologically advanced Western countries
 Avoided the ravages of war and succeeded in denuclearization