Urgent meeting held at desolate Antarctica airbase amid fears over Russian control

"Officials from Chile have met at the bottom of the planet in a bid to bolster claims in

Antarctica as tensions escalate over Russian movement in the area.
Members of Chile‘s parliamentary defense committee flew to a desolate air base for a meeting billed as an assertion of national sovereignty.
Singling out Russia as posing such a threat, committee member Camila Flores said: “We are going to be sitting in Antarctica in an act of sovereignty, of safeguarding and supporting our national integrity in the face of any threats.”
They revealed little about their talks at the glacier-filled base, beyond saying they addressed “the prevailing geopolitical conditions” on the white continent that has vast mineral resources, fresh water reserves and no government." MS