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A Sometime World of Men: Legal Rights in the Ross Dependency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

F. M. Auburn
F. M. Auburn*
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University of Auckland
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 578 - 582
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1971

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11 Ibid. 26.

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20 Martin v. C.I.R., 50 T.C. No. 9; 63 A.J.I.L. 141 (1969).

21 Rear Admiral Abbott quoted by D. Ballantyne, “When Hardy Souls go South,” Auckland Star, Deo. 18, 1967.

22 Auburn, note 1 above, at 256.

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