AHC: 20th Century military confrontation in Antarctica

The one that springs to mind is as part of the Falklands War, Argentina did occupy Southern Thule in 1976 and weren't evicted until after the War itself ended, so perhaps there's a pitched battle there or the Argentineans seize a British Antarctic Survey base and have to be forcibly removed?
 
The one that springs to mind is as part of the Falklands War, Argentina did occupy Southern Thule in 1976 and weren't evicted until after the War itself ended, so perhaps there's a pitched battle there or the Argentineans seize a British Antarctic Survey base and have to be forcibly removed?

Now that I think about it, would Argentina really send men to secure an Antarctic Base which was unlikely to be a military threat?
 
Maybe Argentina and Chile go to war in 1978, some of their Antarctic bases have weapons stored (against the Antarctic treaty) and some officer decides to attack a relatively close enemy base because there is a war going on up north. The issue is, once word breaks up to the world, well, military personal in Antarctic bases are supposed to be unarmed (IIRC).
Or, they may improvise something with fuel barrels.

But large scale operation? I don't think so. The place is too remote, too unimportant economically and too hard to fight in.
 
The Argentines did occupy South Georgia.
In WWII, the US and Nazis did send forces down there on a small basis.

I was aware of the German scientific expedition in the '30s, but I had no idea they had a presence there at all during the war. Was it like Greenland where they just set up a few unmanned weather stations before bugging out by U-boat?
 
Operation High Jump (1946) reveals the Nazi Ahernabe base and it's alien allies. The US I MAR division lands and, after a brutal battle, manages to overcome the SS and alien troops, and close down the interdimensional portal allowing alien access to Earth.
 
Operation High Jump (1946) reveals the Nazi Ahernabe base and it's alien allies. ...

I was just about to say...

Of course there are those who claim Op High Jump was the cover for a attack on a nazi Antarctic base, in which the Allied fleet was defeated & run off. ...but this is ASB territory ;)
 
They invaded a rock inhabited by sheep that was of military threat. So yeah sounds about right.

It may even be more likely than this makes it sound. My understanding of the situation is that there was (probably still is really) a line of thought in the Argentine military that says that the Falklands and South Georgia are key to controlling the Antarctic peninsula, and that Argentina is very interested in pursuing it's territorial claim there.
 

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I was just about to say...

Of course there are those who claim Op High Jump was the cover for a attack on a nazi Antarctic base, in which the Allied fleet was defeated & run off. ...but this is ASB territory ;)

Of course, you could always do something funny, and have it be an attack on the very lost crew of a german commerce raider, after the Atlantis or Pinguin had been ignored for a couple years or something.

Everyone else thinks they're dead (turns out the antenne just broke in the winters,) and the expedition comes down, expecting to burry some freezer burnt corpses, but nope, they're alive, having lived off Penguin and Seal for four years, burning bunker fuel/whale oil to stay warm on their little hideaway on King George island.
 
The alliance for democracy places scramjet nuke silos in the antarctic so as to threaten archona. The missiles are hard to destroy, as they are mobile, moving around in a vast network of tunnels under the ice.

Different countries in the alliance fund different missile base zones, each within their own national command. This includes missiles funded and controlled by India - the only nukes controlled by india.

For national pride reasons, India broadcasts a tv program about their secret missile base, and command centre, without revealing the centralised command centre's location. However the tv Crew includes a draka sleeper agent, so the snakes find out.

The opening of the 1975 Indian incident is a combined citizen force/snow-ghouloon assault on the indian Antarctic missile command centre. Later, draka conventional forces (janissaries) become involved in a major battle to clear out the indian ice tunnel network.
 
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