Acta Dei - Human Migrations to Antarctica

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So I'm back with another map of the series: the human migration of people to Antarctica (And you thought the continent would still be terra nullius even in this world)

But first, . . .

DISCLAIMER - I am not an anthropologist. What I'm presenting is merely a serviceable work of alternate history, and a totally implausible geographic piece of AH at that. And there's a lot in the way of human migrations that I just don't know about, especially since it's not in my field of knowledge/study (ie history and accounting), and thus if there are any inconsistencies, please let me know.

So basically, the indeginous peoples of Antartica come from two groups coming to the continent at different periods of history. The first group (depicted with the red arrow) came from the southernmost tip of what in our world would call them the Americas. Those tribes (namely the ancestors to the Yaghan and Selknam peoples) from the island we would call "Tierra del Fuego" traveled across the seas into the West Antartctic peninsula by the 10th millenium BC and spread southwards along West Antarctica, and then crossed the narrow straits in to East Antarctica. There they spread out in all directions, largely stopping in the area of the Transantactic Mountains by the 4000s BC and central "Queen Maud Land" by the 2000s BC. These would become groups like the Panamali* (a.k.a. the [REDACTED]), the most numerous indigenous people in the continent.

The second group were the Polynesian mariners (depicted with the blue arrow) that traveled much later. Related to the indigenous Maori people of "New Zealand," and using their knowledge of the stars and the sturdiness of their outrigger canoes, they largely traveled the vast Antarctic Sea until they reached the Balleny Islands by AD 1250. From there, they spread to the eastern portions of East Antarctica, but given their limited numbers and the relative hostility of the climate than what they were used to, they never spread far beyond the river valleys and coast near the island by the time of European colonization in the early 19th century. 

*Panamali = "snow peoples" (from Yag. panaxa "snow" + mali "people)