Great White South



In this timeline, Antarctica remains ice free since. This allows the continent to be habitable for Humans. The conditions of the continent remain something much like Siberia or the Canadian north. When Humans migrate to Cape Horn in South America, several will find ways to reach the Trinity Peninsula, and colonize Antarctica. Colonization by pre-Colonial Europe was very limited. Antarctica would finally be discovered by Europeans in 1820 by Russian Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Because of the similarities between Antarctica and Russia, the Russian Empire would take the lead in colonizing Antarctica, with Britain, Germany, France, and the United States close behind.