CFR > Title 45 - Public Welfare > SUBTITLE B—Regulations Relating to Public Welfare > CHAPTER VI—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (parts 601 to 690) > PART 670—CONSERVATION OF ANTARCTIC ANIMALS AND PLANTS > SUBPART F—Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (§670.27 to §670.30) > 670.29—Designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, Specially Managed Areas and Historic Sites and Monuments.

670.29—Designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, Specially Managed Areas and Historic Sites and Monuments.

(a) The following areas have been designated by the Antarctic Treaty Parties for special protection and are hereby designated as Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPA). The Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, as amended, prohibits, unless authorized by a permit, any person from entering or engaging in activities within an ASPA. Detailed maps and descriptions of the sites and complete management plans can be obtained from the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Room 755, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
ASPA 101Taylor Rookery, Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica
ASPA 102Rookery Islands, Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica
ASPA 103Ardery Island and Odbert Island, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
ASPA 104Sabrina Island, Balleny Islands
ASPA 105Beaufort Island, Ross Sea (see ASPA 124)
ASPA 106Cape Hallett, Victoria Land
ASPA 107Emperor Island, Dion Islands, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (see Measure 1, 2002)
ASPA 108Green Island, Berthelot Islands, Antarctic Peninsula
ASPA 109Moe Island, South Orkney Islands
ASPA 110Lynch Island, South Orkney Islands
ASPA 111Southern Powell Island and adjacent islands, South Orkney Islands
ASPA 112Coppermine Peninsula, Robert Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 113Litchfield Island, Arthur Harbour, Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago
ASPA 114Northern Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands
ASPA 115Lagotellerie Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
ASPA 116‘New College Valley’, Caughley Beach, Cape Bird, Ross Island
ASPA 117Avian Island, off Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula
ASPA 118‘Cryptogam Ridge’, Mount Melbourne, Victoria Land
ASPA 119Davis Valley and Forlidas Pond, Dufek Massif
ASPA 120‘Pointe-Géologie Archipelego’, Terre Adélie
ASPA 121Cape Royds, Ross Island
ASPA 122Arrival Heights, Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island
ASPA 123Barwick and Balham Valleys (see Measure 1, 2002), Victoria Land
ASPA 124Cape Crozier, Ross Island
ASPA 125Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 126Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 127Haswell Island
ASPA 128Western shore of Admiralty Bay, King George Island
ASPA 129Rothera Point, Adelaide Island
ASPA 130‘Tramway Ridge’, Mount Erebus, Ross Island
ASPA 131Canada Glacier, Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley, Victoria Land
ASPA 132Potter Peninsula, ‘25 de Mayo’ (King George) Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 133Harmony Point, west coast of Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 134Cierva Point and offshore islands, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula
ASPA 135North-eastern Bailey Peninsula, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land
ASPA 136Clark Peninsula, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land
ASPA 137Northwest White Island, McMurdo Sound
ASPA 138Linnaeus Terrace, Asgaard Range, Victoria Land
ASPA 139Biscoe Point, Anvers Island
ASPA 140Parts of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 141‘Yukidori Valley’, Langhovde, Lützow-Holmbukta

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ASPA 142Svarthamaren, Mühlig-Hofmannfjella, Dronning Maud Land
Code of Federal Regulations 198
ASPA 143Marine Plain, Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land
ASPA 144‘Chile Bay’ (Discovery Bay), Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 145Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 146South Bay, Doumer Island, Palmer Archipelago
ASPA 147Ablation Valley-Ganymede Heights, Alexander Island
ASPA 148Mount Flora, Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
ASPA 149Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 150Ardley Island, Maxwell Bay, King George Island
ASPA 151Lions Rump, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 152Western Bransfield Strait off Low Island, South Shetland Islands
ASPA 153Eastern Dallmann Bay off Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago
ASPA 154Botany Bay, Cape Geology, Victoria Land
ASPA 155Cape Evans, Ross Island
ASPA 156Lewis Bay, Mount Erebus, Ross Island
ASPA 157Backdoor Bay, Cape Royds, Ross Island
ASPA 158Hut Point, Ross Island
ASPA 159Cape Adare, Borchgrevink Coast
ASPA 160Frazier Islands, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica (see Measure 2, 2003)
ASPA 161Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea
ASPA 162Mawson's Huts, Commonwealth Bay, George V Land, East Antarctica (see Measure 2, 2004)
ASPA 163Dakshin Gangotri Glacier, Dronning Maud Land
ASPA 164Scullin and Murray Monoliths, Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica
ASPA 165Edmonson Point, Wood Bay, Ross Sea
ASPA 166Port-Martin, Terre Adélie
ASPA 167Hawker Island, Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica
(b) The following areas have been designated by the Antarctic Treaty Parties for special management and are hereby designated as Antarctic Specially Managed Areas (ASMA). Detailed maps and descriptions of the sites and complete management plans can be obtained from the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Room 755, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
ASMA 1Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
ASMA 2McMurdo Dry Valleys, Southern Victoria Land
ASMA 3Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, George V Land
ASMA 4Deception Island, South Shetland Islands
ASMA 5Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole
ASMA 6Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica
(c) The following areas have been designated by the Antarctic Treaty Parties as historic sites or monuments (HSM). The Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, as amended, prohibits any damage, removal or destruction of a historic site or monument listed pursuant to Annex V to the Protocol. Descriptions of the sites or monuments can be obtained from the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Room 755, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
HSM 1Flag mast at South Pole
HSM 2Rock cairn and plaques on Ongul Island, Prins Harald Kyst
HSM 3Rock cairn and plaque on Proclamation Island, Enderby Land
HSM4 Bust and plaque at ‘Pole of Inaccessibility’
HSM 5Rock cairn and plaque at Cape Bruce, Mac. Robertson Land
HSM 6Rock cairn and canister at Walkabout Rocks, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land
HSM 7Stone and plaque at Mabus Point, Queen Mary Land
HSM 8Monument sledge and plaque at Mabus Point, Queen Mary Land
HSM 9Cemetery on Buromskiy Island, Queen Mary Land
HSM 10Observatory at Bunger Hills, Queen Mary Land
HSM 11Tractor and plaque at Vostok Station
HSM 14Ice cave at Inexpressible Island, Terra Nova Bay, Scott Coast

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HSM 15Hut at Cape Royds, Ross Island
Code of Federal Regulations 199
HSM 16Hut at Cape Evans, Ross Island
HSM 17Cross at Cape Evans, Ross Island
HSM 18Hut at Hut Point, Ross Island
HSM 19Cross at Hut Point, Ross Island
HSM 20Cross on Observation Hill, Ross Island
HSM 21Hut at Cape Crozier, Ross Island
HSM 22Hut at Cape Adare, Borchgrevink Coast
HSM 23Grave at Cape Adare, Borchgrevink Coast
HSM 24Rock cairn at Mount Betty, Queen Maud Range
HSM 26Installations at Barry Island, Debenham Islands, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 27Cairn with plaque at Megalestris Hill, Petermann Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 28Cairn, pillar and plaque at Port Charcot, Booth Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 29Lighthouse on Lambda Island, Melchior Islands, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 30Shelter at Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 32Monolith on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 33Shelter, cross and plaque on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 34Bust on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 35Cross and statue on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 36Plaque at Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 37Statue at Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 38Hut of Snow Hill Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 39Hut at Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 40Bust, grotto, statue, flag mast, graveyard and stele at Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 41Hut and grave at Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 42Huts, magnetic observatory and graveyard at Scotia Bay, Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands
HSM 43Cross at ‘Piedrabuena Bay’, Filchner Ice Front, Weddell Sea
HSM 44Plaque at Nivlisen Ice Front, Princesse Astrid Kyst, Dronning Maud Land
HSM 45Plaque at Metchnikoff Point, Brabant Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 46Buildings and installations at Port-Martin, Terre Adélie
HSM 47Building on le des Pétrels, Terre Adélie
HSM 48Cross on le des Pétrels, Terre Adélie
HSM 49Pillar at Bunger Hill, Queen Mary Land
HSM 50Plaque at Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 51Grave and cross at Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 52Monolith at Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 53Monolith and plaques on Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 54Bust on Ross Island
HSM 55Buildings and artifacts on Stonington Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 56Remains of hut and environs at Waterboat Point, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 57Plaque at “Yankee Bay” (Yankee Harbour), MacFarlane Strait, Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 59Cairn on Half Moon Beach, Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 60Plaque and cairn at 'Penguins Bay', Seymour Island, James Ross Island archipelago
HSM 61‘Base A’ at Port Lockroy, Goudier Island, off Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula
HSM 62‘Base F (Wordie House)’ on Winter Island, Argentine Islands
HSM 63‘Base Y’ on Horseshoe Island, Marguerite Bay, western Graham Land
HSM 64‘Base E’ on Stonington Island, Marguerite Bay, western Graham Land
HSM 65Message post on Foyn Island, Possession Islands

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HSM 66Cairn at Scott Nunataks, Alexandra Mountains
Code of Federal Regulations 200
HSM 67Rock shelter ‘Granite House’ at Cape Geology, Granite Harbour
HSM 68Depot at Hells Gate Moraine, Inexpressible Island, Terra Nova Bay
HSM 69Message post at Cape Crozier, Ross Island
HSM 70Message post at Cape Wadworth, Coulman Island
HSM 71Whaling station at Whalers Bay, Deception Island
HSM 72Cairn on Tryne Islands, Vestfold Hills
HSM 73Memorial Cross, Lewis Bay, Ross Island
HSM 74Wreckage of sailing ship, Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands
HSM 75‘A Hut’, Pram Point, Ross Island
HSM 76Ruins of base ‘Pedro Aguirre Cerda’, Pendulum Cove, Deception Island
HSM 77Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, George V Land
HSM 78Memorial Plaque at India Point, Humboldt Mountains, Wohlthat Massif, central Dronning Maud Land
HSM 79Lilie Marleen Hut, Mt. Dockery, Everett Range, Northern Victoria Land
HSM 80Amundsen's Tent
HSM 81Rocher du Débarquement (Landing Rock)
HSM 82Monument to the Antarctic Treaty and Plaque
[73 FR 14940, Mar. 20, 2008]