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RITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

The British Antarctic Territory, formerly part of the Falkland Islands'

Dependencies, is administered by a High Commissioner who is also the

Governor of the Falkland Islands and its Dependencies. There are no

indigenous inhabitants and the population consists entirely of the scien-

tific members of the British Antarctic Survey and scientists from other

countries. Responsibility for the British Antarctic Survey was transferred

from the Commonwealth Office to the Department of Education and Science on

1 April 1967. The Territory covers approximately 666,000 square miles.