[Berosus]

The main drawback to a location in Antarctica is that you can only look at objects in the southern hemisphere of the sky.

[AloneInMass]

“The main drawback to a location in Antarctica is that you can only look at objects in the southern hemisphere of the sky.”

Also, only during the winter, no?

[SunkenCiv]

The advantage is, on a world with 70% of the surface is ocean, most of the landmasses, population, and astronomy gets done in the northern hemisphere, where it is impossible to view a large chunk of the sky.

Eltanin keyword:

• What Caused Argentina's Craters? [2002]
• Mystery of the Eltanin Antenna [2003]
• Antarctic Craters Reveal Strike [2004]
• Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica [2004]
• The Eltanin Impact Crater [2004]
• Fossil hunter believes tsunami struck Florida [2005]
• Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice? [2006]
• Megaherbs Flourished In Antarctica [2008]
• A potential fallacy in ice core studies? [2008]
• Amazon River Up To 11 Million Years Old, Says Study [2009]
• Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze [2010]
• Cosmic Impact Site That Created Earth's Axial Tilt and Fault Lines [2010]
• Did a Pacific Ocean meteor trigger the Ice Age? [2012]
• Massive Eltanin Meteor 2.5 million years ago set off mass tsunami, changed the climate? [2012]
• Ancient Ice Melt Unearthed in Antarctic Mud: 20-Meter Sea Level Rise, Five Million Years Ago [2013]
• Scientists find...carcasses...in mysterious Antarctic lake...buried under 3,500 feet of ice [2019]
• Why are some icebergs green in Antarctica? Researchers think they've solved century-old mystery [2019]