Why Is Antarctica Populated?

The name Antarctica is the romanised version of the Greek compound word ἀνταρκτική (antarktiké), feminine of ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), meaning "opposite to the Arctic", "opposite to the north".

Why is Antarctica an inhabited?

Due to its remoteness, inhospitable weather conditions and lack of natural land bridges connecting it to other continents, Antarctica has spent the last 35 million years in relative silence and seclusion. Prior to its discovery in 1820, no humans had ever set eyes on this icy continent.

Why is Antarctica not populated?

Antarctica does not and has never had an indigenous population (there are no native human Antarcticans). ... Antarctica was already too isolated by distance, climate and the storminess of its seas for primitive peoples to discover.