The dissolution of the Ross Dependency—a dependent region which organized all the Antarctic claims of New Zealand—took place between September 3, 2010 and September 5, 2010, in which the Ross Dependency was dissolved into the New Zealand associate states of Balleny Islands and Ross and Scott, and the joint Bellinsgauzenian-New Zealander occupied territory of Transantarctica. The planned dissolution was years in the making, and came to be due to the rise or Russo-Antarctic Nationalism and Ballenian autonomy.