“…As discussed, Article 4 of the Antarctic Treaty effectively diffuses disputes over territorial claims and has allowed Australia's claim to the AAT to endure since 1961, despite a lack of universal recognition (Scott, 2021). This dispute settlement is fundamental to maintaining peace in Antarctica, and therefore provoking any new or revisited disputes over the AAT would have not only have been disruptive to Australia, but the entire geopolitics of Antarctica, and it was thus a key consideration in the manner in which Australia addressed the issue of the AAT ECS.…”