This book contains: all international instruments regulating the protection of the Antarctic environment; all relevant Australian legislation regulating the protection of the environment of the Australian Antarctic Territory; a commentary on both the inter-national and Australian legal regime dealing with Antarctic environmental protection; the impact of the 1991 Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection upon both the international legal regime and also Australian law; the effectiveness of Antarctic environmental protection instruments at Australian and international level; and a number of other key instruments and documents dealing with Antarctic environmental protection and marine living resource conservation.