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The Third International Forum on the Sub-Antarctic 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.

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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 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.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 19 May 2011