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Guys,

The idea is inspired by:

http://shootingparrots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Punch_Rhodes_Colossus.png

but applied to British South America ( BSA )

PoD: the Napoleonic wars and the British invasion in the La Plata region. ( as usual in these hundreds of BSA timelines ). Brits take and hold the estuary region and naturally do demographic replacement via sourcing immigrants, and the spanish-speaking population component pretty quickly fells into tiny minority. As during the liberation wars, the ( this time British ) Argentinians go to liberate / annex Chile ( in 1820es ). Thus the whole Southern Cone fells into Brit hands. The name ARGENTINA for this entity in its totality is most natural because it has such posh latin imperial origin.

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What follows then?

Southern direction: not the Russians in 1820es but the TTL Argentinians / Brits discover and CLAIM Antarctica. London lets them to incorporate all the territories from 60 degress south into the Dominion of Argentina under the "trademark / brand" FRIGIA. ( From frost / winter / snow in latin ).

Northern Direction:

hmmm, see the present population density map of S.America:



From Terra del Fuego to Guyana in a strip wide thousands of miles, even nowadays lives de facto nobody.

OTL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Guyana#Transition_to_British_rule

So TTL Brit control over the two continental ends by the meridian ( the Southern Cone and Guyana ) are OTL approx. contemporary.

So the trick would be the British Empire and British Argentina to get involved in the revolutionary wars of the 1820es and the later 1800es civil wars in order to take control over the WHOLE of the drainage basins of Amazon, Plate and Orinocco rivers.

The Portugese speaking S.American region would be trimmed down to a narrow strip along the Atlantic, the Spanish speaking region to a narrow strip along Pacific and Carribean from Atakama north to Guyana.

Thus British S. America ( OTL Argentina ) would become the biggest country by territory in the world, consisting of a strip of land between Montevideo ( OTL Urugway ) to Santiago ( OTL Chile ) where the Dominion full-fledged member-states / provinces would be - sandwitched between two enormous "federal territories"
- 15 000 000 sq.km of FLUVIA + 15 000 000 sq.km of FRIGIA

I could make a map and post it here...
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