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The ceremonial marker at the South Pole surrounded by the flags of the twelve original signatory nations of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty.

Why Antarctica Has 10 Time Zones and No Government to Set Them

No country owns Antarctica, so nobody had the authority to draw its time zones — the job fell instead to whichever nation flies in a base's supplies, and in one case, to a database volunteer's best guess.

World  · 21 Jul 2026, 06:23  · Elena Marsh