This is a list of High Commissioners and Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory

British Antarctic Territory

The British Antarctic Territory is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories. It comprises the region south of 60°S latitude and between longitudes and , forming a wedge shape that extends to the South Pole...

(BAT), the area of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom.

The British Antarctic Territory was established as a separate British overseas territory in 1962. From 1962 to 1990, a High Commissioner (who was also Governor of the Falkland Islands

Governor of the Falkland Islands

The Governor of the Falkland Islands is the representative of the British Crown in the Falkland Islands, acting "in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf" as the islands' de facto head of state in the absence of the British monarch...

) was also appointed to oversee the territory. In 1990, administration of the BAT was transferred to a Commissioner based in London.

Since 1998, the Commissioner of the BAT has also served as Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory

Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory

The Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory is the head of government in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The Commissioner is appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office...

.

Prior to 1962, the area was a part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and as such was administered by the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

High Commissioners

(also Governors of the Falkland Islands)

• Edwin Porter Arrowsmith (1962–1964)
• Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard (1964–1970)
• Ernest Gordon Lewis (1971–1975)
• Neville Arthur Irwin French (1975–1977)
• James Roland Walter Parker (1977–1980)
• Rex Masterman Hunt
  Rex Masterman Hunt
  Sir Rex Masterman Hunt KCMG is a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands between 1980 and September 1985.- Career :After attending Coatham School, Redcar and St Peter's College, Oxford, Rex Hunt joined the Royal...
  
   (1980–1985)
• Gordon Wesley Jewkes (1985–1988)
• William H. Fullerton (1988–1990)

Commissioners

(non-resident; based in London)

• M. Baker Bates (1990–1992)
• P. Newton (1992–1995)
• Anthony Longrigg (1995–1997)
• John White (1997–2001)
• Alan Huckle
  Alan Huckle
  Alan Edden Huckle is a British colonial administrator. He was the commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory from 2001 until 2004, when he left to become the governor of Anguilla in the Caribbean...
  
   (2001–2004)
• Tony Crombie (2004–2006)
• Leigh Turner
  Leigh Turner
  Leigh Turner is a British civil servant who has been British ambassador to Ukraine, resident in Kiev, since 14 June 2008. As ambassador, he writes a regular blog in English and Ukrainian and publishes interviews and articles on UK/Ukraine relations....
  
   (2006–2008)
• Colin Roberts (2008–present)