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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There was a struggle sessions last year about it. I think something along the lines of Argentine chauvinism and how the islands were "empty". They kinda forgot that the UK will use these islands to colonize Antarctica.
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!