Abstract
The Antarctic region remains one of the more distinctive regions for the purposes of contemporary international law of the sea as a result of the compact created under the Antarctic Treaty. The status of the Area within the Southern Ocean has long been contentious, especially because of the 'unclaimed sector' on the Antarctic continent from which no continental shelf can be asserted in the absence of a coastal state and due to the prohibition of mining in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean up to 60° S under the Madrid Protocol. This raises direct issues of regime interaction and whether the LOS Convention's global legal framework and its institutions such as the ISA acknowledge the primacy of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) regional legal framework which for the time being does not permit any seabed mining activities to take place within the Antarctic Treaty area. Keywords: Antarctic region; Antarctic Treaty System (ATS); international law of the sea; LOS Convention; Madrid Protocol; regional regime interaction
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