Compare fanciful descriptions by explorers. The accounts of Tremarec might compare well with the Vinland sagas in which the frozen wastes of Greenland were described as prime wine country!
The Antarctic could be an interesting case study as to what extent the mineral rights to Antarctica were the reason for the Falklands War of 1982.
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