World Park Base

World Park Base is a non-governmental Antarctic base located on Ross Island in Ross Dependency.

The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in the late 1980s in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare all of the continent of Antarctica a World Park. This would make the entire continent off-limits to commercial exploitation and pollution, and only permit limited scientific research.

This base prides itself on 'setting a good example' for the other bases, by such means as removing all of its refuse from Antarctica, unlike nearby McMurdo Station which simply dumps its refuse into the sea.

The official attitude amongst the Antarctic Treaty nations is that World Park Base is to be ignored and that no assistance be given to it, although New Zealand, which claims jurisdiction over Ross Dependency, would assist if a life-threatening situation arose.