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to the principle by which territories deemed not to belong to any recognized sovereign state could be acquired through occupation.




Since the twentieth century, the application of terra nullius to inhabited territories was rejected in several jurisdictions as part of increasing recognition of Indigenous rights, including in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) in Australia. Today Antarctica remains as the only major landmass that is sometimes

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