ABSTRACT
For centuries, the World Ocean has inspired man to reach beyond the horizons of human imagination. The 40th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Law of the Sea is an opportunity to take a fresh look at the achievements of the international community so far in the search for peaceful solutions in the field of extraterritorial space management. It is also an opportunity to reflect on perspectives for the development of international law relating to the creation of effective legal mechanisms regulating the use of the World Ocean, Antarctica and outer space. The effect of the Antarctic Treaty is the current demilitarisation of Antarctica, the international management of the continent by the consultative states, ensuring the freedom of scientific exploration and preventing (or at least suspending) conflicts over Antarctic territories. In the literature, it is often indicated that the Antarctic Treaty brought the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind closer to the international community for the first time, then grounded in the law of the sea and now proposed as a solution to the legal status of the moon and entire outer space. Undoubtedly, the compromise of the international community included in the Antarctic Treaty was the basis that inspired the development of the principles of law in outer space, as well as was part of the process of building a compromise of the international community in the field of codification of the law of the sea, completed in 1982 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
