Charles Darwin

I've just thought of something. Seing as we're obliterating butterflys anyway, what would Darwin make of half this stuff? And the Voyage of the Beagle would have probably included Antarctica as well, so we get Darwin at the Pole! (Actually, that may become the 'gentleman's vacation' of the 19th Century, Africa, Antarctica and the Pole. And seing as there was a hotel at the eqautor, bet there's one there as well. -

I like it. It works extremely well with your 'Uninhabited Antarctica' timeline, since there'd be virgin landscape and no one to object. In the Tsalal timeline, the voyage of the Beagle would take place 1831-1836, which would be approximately 60 years after Captain Cook. So it seems likely to be viable.