World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. It was the only non-government Antarctic base. and to declare the continent as a World Park. A treaty, the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, had been under consideration to enable mining but failed to receive the required support by 25 November 1989.
Greenpeace and others wanted to make the entire continent off-limits to commercial exploitation and pollution, and permit only limited scientific research. Greenpeace closed the base down in 1991 and completely dismantled the base in 1992.
Ultimately the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was agreed in 1991 and came into force in 1998, ratified by all the Antarctic Treaty consultative parties, designating Antarctica as a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science".