Abstract
The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was established in 1994 as the second zero-commercial-catch sanctuary to be created by the International Whaling Commission under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. Commercial whaling is prohibited within the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, which extends along 40° south across the South Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans, dipping first to 60° south below South America and then to 55° south across the South Indian Ocean. The Sanctuary overlaps the Antarctic Treaty Area and the area managed under the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was considered by the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case.