I still don't get why the British would go to the effort of "recruiting" Inuit peoples to resettle in Antarctica, if the principal purpose of the exercise is to stake a claim. As other have agreed with me, there is no basic reason to presume that Inuit peoples could really adapt to the Antarctic any better than properly equipped Europeans. In fact, they might do worse because they would have to unlearn basic cultural presumptions based on thousands of years' adaptation to the specific environments in the circumpolar area.
No, if you want to stake a claim to Antarctica, just send several well-supplied naval/military expeditions to establish permanent bases along the least forbidding coastal areas and recruit/train down and out Britons and Canadians to settle there with big cash bonuses. Accept that the colonies will not be self-sufficient
Or establish penal colonies. At least then you are not uprooting tribal peoples from their native homelands or luring poor people to live even more impoverished lives hunting penguins in the frozen wastes.
No, if you want to stake a claim to Antarctica, just send several well-supplied naval/military expeditions to establish permanent bases along the least forbidding coastal areas and recruit/train down and out Britons and Canadians to settle there with big cash bonuses. Accept that the colonies will not be self-sufficient
Or establish penal colonies. At least then you are not uprooting tribal peoples from their native homelands or luring poor people to live even more impoverished lives hunting penguins in the frozen wastes.