In this timeline, the Palawa of Tasmania develop more sophisticated nautical technology, allowing them to become to first people to settle New Zealand and eventually stumble across Antarctica as a result of the strong currents around around 900 AD

Subsisting off the local penguins, seals, and whales and using them to make clothes, housing, and boats, The Palawa would gradually spread throughout the continent they would call 'Burrangkwagnutenna' (place of the dead moon), even settling the Scotia Arc and contacting the Yaghan people.

Gonçalo Coelho would be the first European to contact the Palawa when he stumbled upon Tunkbedunyamaneng (South Georgia Island), this was followed by following expeditions to the mainland from Iberia. This would introduce Roman Catholicism, writing, dogs, and other things through trade. But it would also bring diseases that would damage many communities on the continent. Although, Burrangkwagnutenna would recover by the 18th century due to its isolation.

Greater attention on the continent from European/American explorers would coalesce during the 19th century, leading many of the nations there to align themselves with certain Western Powers for economic growth and protection and eventually leading to the unification of the continent under Hibernian (Irish Australian) influence.

Burrangkwagnutenna, in exchange for the sale of whaling rights, would import goods such as wood, root vegetables, and European technology. This would aid in the modernisation of the continent as it opens up trade to more nations in the Southern Hemisphere, even allowing it to construct greenhouse structures to start up a small agricultural sector by the mid-20th century.

As global warming and environmental conservation become more pressing issues in the late 20th century, Burrangkwagnutenna, the most vulnerable to glacial mass loss, would agitate for international action against greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation. investing heavily in solar power, establishing nature reserves and environmental restrictions and restricting commercial whaling.

Today, Burrangwagnutenna is a large but undeveloped country with an economy based around tourism, research, solar power, and fishing. Its closest ties are with countries around the Southern Hemisphere such as Hibernia, Argentina, Hanover, and New Zealand.

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