Antarctic Tuzelmann Award (Great White South)

History
The Antarctic Tuzelmann Award (ATA) is one of (if not the) most prestigious award bestowed unto an Antarctic citizen. Similar to the Nobel Peace Prize, the ATA is awarded annually to any citizen in one of the Antarctic territories who have made outstanding contributions to their country, their continent, keeping peace and promoting equality (it is occasionally awarded for contributions to Literature or Science, like the other Nobel Prizes). Until 1950, a government-chosen committee in Maudland presented the ATA until the Antarctic Tuzelmann Award Committee was formed at the with 22 members. To date, has been the recipient of most of the awards, with  (a close ally of Maudland) coming second.

The ATA has been awarded annually with the only exceptions being due to war.

Traditonally, the Award has been bestowed to a single person with the only exception being in 1938. Although the Antarctic Tuzelmann Award Committee nomination rules do not prohibit joint awards, it has only been done once.

"Cursed Decade"
The "Cursed Decade" is a term used to describe the history of the ATA between 1961 to 1971, in which 7 of the 11 Laureates were assassinated shortly after winning the award. Those assassinated were:

The assassinations were usually motivated by the Laureate's work which had won them the award. For example, Pekka Tulenheimo was assassinated by an organized crime syndicate less than a year after he won the ATA for battling organized crime. Some of the assassins wanted to "send a message" to the ATA Committee for awarding the Prize to a controversial figure — the killed Lord Carter in  just days before he was to present the next award (it is customary for a Laureate to present the award to the following year's Laureate).

Many have tried to explain the unusually high rate of assassinations during this period; usually citing the political reforms Antarctica was going through at the time as the cause. Few of the assassinations were linked – or even performed by the same perpetrator – so most historians consider it a mere coincidence; but some theorists have suggested that a major conspiracy may be to blame for most (if not all) of the "Cursed Decade" assassinations. Some have even linked them to other contemporary assassinations, such as John F. Kennedy's and Dr. Martin Luther King's. Most prominent historians reject these conspiracy theories.