Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."
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The thing I would've focused more on is how the islands have a military installation of a NATO country right on the doorstep of Latin America, I'd honestly never even considered the possibility of colonizing Antarctica.
That too. In fact it was actually used as a base to neo-colonize the newly independent Argentine confederation. I think almost all latin american countries have semi-legal claims on Antarctica through spanish colonization or something.
Treaty of Tordesilla still applies!
I could be wrong, but only Chile and Argentina have claims on Antarctica, the other LatAm countries just have bases inside these areas.
Brazil; Uruguay; Colombia, Peru & Ecuador - its called the defrontación theory.
Same with French Guyana, which is literally a colony of France and should probably gain independence.
It used to be the place were they would send prisoners to die basically.
Yes, but France also used it to invade and harass Brazil (1890s - 1970s). Only recently, since Macron and Lula da Silva seem to be friends, have they built a bridge between Brazil and the Colony.
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