Battle of Antarctica (Russian Civil War) (Great White South)

The Battle of Antarctica was a brief conflict between the Communist Party of Russian West Antarctica against the Colonial administration. There was no Communist presence in Russian East Antarctica, so none of the action of the Civil War took place there. , the Governor of Russian West Antarctica, was a noted anti-Monarchist, and many expected him to side with the Communists in the War. However, he stated that: "Communism, as presented to us by Lenin and his Bolsheviks, is no better than the Monarchy"; and in the War, his main concern was simply to keep order in the Colony - already a poorly-regulated wilderness.

The Communist Party saw this as a sign that his administration was pro-White (the White Movement was the anti-Communist side of the War. Gorchakov denied these claims as well.); and the Party began a Guerilla campaign against his government. Gorchakov himself was assassinated by a Communist agent early in the war, and was never replaced. A few months after his death, the (the Colonial Military Police) located and stormed the Communist Headquarters near modern-day, , and executed the entire Communist leadership. This effectively ended the War, but left Russian West Antarctica with no kind of central Government; and the Colony fell apart. By 1923, it was completely replaced by the American territory of ; the New Zealand Dependency of ; and various K'atharan states in modern-day.