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title: "The Third International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic will take place in Hobart, Australia in August 2011"
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# The Third International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic will take place in Hobart, Australia in August 2011

The [Third International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic](http://www.sub-antarctic.org/) with the theme ‘The future of the sub-Antarctic Region: its global significance and value' will be held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on 1 and 2 August 2011.

 Eminent speakers will talk on the sub-Antarctic:

 
- as a unique source of knowledge
- as a climate-change sentinel
- as a source of human enrichment
- as an economic and environmental asset
- alien species management
- response to extreme events.

 To register your interest and subscribe to the mailing list please email [Antarctic@development.tas.gov.au](mailto:Antarctic@development.tas.gov.au).

 The inaugural International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic was held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from 5-7 July 2006.  The second forum ‘*Environmental Change in the Sub-Antarctic'*was held in 2009, also in Hobart.  Proceedings of the first two fora have been published in the *Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania* ([click here](http://www.sub-antarctic.org/docs/subantproceedings.pdf) to order).

 The forum series was founded upon the conviction that the sub-Antarctic islands and surrounding seas should not be viewed as a subdivision of Antarctica but as a distinct circumpolar domain which has its own unique character, scientific significance and management issues.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Islands/ALBATROSS ISLAND AND RAINBOW R Alderman_web.jpg "Albatross Island off Tasmania: home of the Shy Albatross.  Photograph by Rachael Alderman")

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 19 May 2011*