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Origin of the Wiki
This wiki was born from an idea of DValdron in the alternatehistory.com forum : Green Antarctica - The Last Continent.

Premise
Antarctica never glaciates (or at least never glaciates completely) leaving a relatively warm, habitable continent with a functioning ecosystem. Essentially, Antarctica remains more or less the live continent that it was 20 million or so years ago. Despite being a live continent, Antarctica remains isolated by distance and the circumpolar currents. Even without glaciation, 6 month nights and six month days, and various local conditions make this the strangest most exotic place on earth.

Caveats
This is playing the ASB card big time. Despite lack of complete glaciation, world sea levels are approximately the same as they are now and followed the same historic and prehistoric fluctuations. Human evolution is not butterflied away. The prehistoric climate shifts, ice ages and mass extinctions occur on schedule. The Antarctic circumpolar currents and coriolis winds are the same as in our universe with the same strength and effect, the only difference being that for arbitrary fluke Antarctica is not transformed into an icebox, but rather the circumpolar keeps the polar heat from escaping. No explanation required or given. Butterflies don't start to happen until humans actually get there, and even then, butterflies may not be significant for quite some time.

Rules
Given this premise the following rules apply:

Rule #1 - We don't talk about fight club.

Rule #2 - we don't talk about fight club. More seriously, the only rule is that the premise is inviolate - no going 'Is impossible' or 'butterflies prevent humans from evolving, etc.

Invitation
It will be try and work this out as far as its fun. But it have gaps, obviously. Anyone can play, all ideas welcome. Parallel threads are great. Someone wants to pull a Jared and invent an entire Antarctic civilization, welcome to it. Or a 'United States of Antarctica' where the American revolution happens there, all fine. We can split the thread, maintain separate timelines within the thread, play with ideas. There's a line between criticism and negativity, and really good criticism is welcome. If someone wants to throw in an arbitrary ASB term to make their idea work, go with it. It should get criticism, but not negation.

Let's all just have fun with this!

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