A colony implies sustained long-term habitation by the same people; that's not true for the South Pole station, which is a research facility where people rotate

A colony implies sustained long-term habitation by the same people; that's not true for the South Pole station, which is a research facility where people rotate out. As far as I know, the only country to try colonizing Antarctica proper has been Argentina, with a small number of families settling at Esperanza Base (at the north end of the Antarctic Penninsula) and a big fuss made about the first kids born on the Antarctic mainland. Chile maintains a little civilian settlement called Villa Las Estrellas on an offshore Antarctic island with similar motives as the Argentines. Everyone else just ignores this embarrassing rivalry.