British Antarctic Territory



1819-1998

YEAR DATE EVENT HIGH COMMISIONER
1819 16 october Claimed for Britain
1962 3 march UK Colony Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith
1964 Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard
1971 1 january Ernest Gordon Lewis
1975 Neville Arthur Irwin French
1977 James Roland Walter Parker
1980 Rex Masterman Hunt
1985 september Gordon Wesley Jewkes
1988 William H. Fullerton
1990 M.S. Baker Bates
1992 P.M. Newton

1998-

YEAR DATE EVENT COMMISIONER
1998 21 april Anthony L. Longrigg
2000 John White


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