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In 1961 the Antarctic Treaty came into effect and science became a major item on the Antarctic agenda. For scientific advice the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) leant heavily for advice on the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) which had been established in 1958. The SCAR Executive Secretariat was based in the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge and by 1987 had 18 nations as full members and a total of 10 permanent working parties.
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Clancy, R., Manning, J., Brolsma, H. (2014). Antarctic Science Comes of Age: Window on the World (1960–2010). In: Mapping Antarctica. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4321-2_9
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