On Argentine school maps, coloured in the national colours, Antarctica appears as a white triangle stretching from Ushuaia to the South Pole. Science exists, but it orbits around territorial claims because it has been turned into political currency, securing one’s seat at the table. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty was a Cold War pact for peace and science, not a regime of ownership or stewardship. Its preamble declares peaceful use ‘in the interest of all mankind’: humanity as the beneficiary of peace, never the owner of the territory; a continent intended for everyone. It requires replacing the question of who owns the world’s last ownerless territory with the only question that truly matters: who will be responsible for it, and how.