▲ 11 r/HistoryWhatIf
What if the Antarctic Peninsula had a native population?
In this timeline, a cold resistant species of tree exists along the peninsula alongside existing Antarctic flora giving people fuel and wood for tools and boats and the southern ocean is far less hostile making travel to Antarctica more feasible by ancient civilizations such as the Polynesians.
Would Europeans attempt to colonize them? What would the population and culture be like?
What would trade look like?
How many people could the peninsula support? Similar to the Inuit in the arctic and Greenland?
Does this greatly change the world, major events and our timeline or is the impact small?
u/DarkAdrenaline03 — 2 days ago