You can check it out. You can take a cruise to King George for like 10k, or if youre really rich you can take a crack at a south pole run for 100k. You can sail your ass down there too, and walk to those pyramids and the only thing that will stop you is your mortal body. Im confused as to what you feel like your missing out on, or why you feel shut out of the continent for any other reason than its the most isolated and hostile place on the planet. To your tangent, IIRC the pope brokered a deal that kept a European war from breaking out over claims in the new world, and no one that could have invaded post colonial Brazil cared to do it, everyone with the budget and stomach for war was focused on European hegemony from the 1800s until recently. Antarctica was contested until the 60s when operating there finally viable and it was noticed there is a lot of oil and gold down there. Cooler head prevailed, and TPTB decided it was better to turn it into a special area for all countries rather than another nuclear flash point with redundant hard to extract resources.