I saw all the maps on the Map thread and am now quite interested in this. First thing I want: details on Antarctica’s native peoples.
Glad you're interested! I'll go into more detail later on (infoboxes incoming in the next week) but here's an very brief overview along with a map!
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Locations and densities of Antarctic Indigenous Populations before European Contact
Ognian Peoples: Originated with the Yaghan peoples of Tierra del Fuego in South America, their ancestors were the first humans to step foot on Antarctica in approximately 10,000 BCE. Spreading across all of what is considered Western Antarctica, most heavily settling the Western Antarctic archipelago. In the present they're considered the most "successful" indigenous group in Antarctica, after breaking free from Russian colonial government during the Russian Civil War and forming several separate states under the patronage of several world powers. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberalization of Bellinsgauzenia the Ognian-majority states have formed a confederation.
Antarctic Māori: Closely related to neighboring New Zealand Māori, the foundations of these people were laid in approximately 1250 CE shortly after the discovery and settlement of New Zealand by the Māori mariners. The Antarctic Māori settled primarily along the coasts, rarely venturing far inland to the tundra. Today they're the largest non-European people group in every nation in Eastern Antarctica and the only non-Ognian native Antarctic peoples in the Ognian Confederation, having been deported there by Russian colonial governments in the years leading up the the Russian Civil War.
The "Virgin Country" was the only remaining major piece of true
Terra Incognita on the earth prior to it's discovery and settlement by first British, then German colonists. There remains some debate among contemporary anthropologist and Archeologists about the size and veracity of the Virgin Country.