Have to ask if there is any real need?
Apart from climate research, etc, why do they need to be there? Hopefully they will not be exploiting any oil reserves in the area (who would give the oil companies permission? Who would they be paying taxes/royalties/whatever to?)and why would anyone start, for example, any form of manufacturing on a continent without any indiginous local workforce? It is a (mostly) unspoilt land littered with the occasional wrecked aeroplane and dead horse/huskey/explorer. This won’t be the case if/when large populations start to move in – especially if they are the bored rich looking for a new playground because there is too long a queue for the all-singing all-dancing Everest experience…
Is there anything which really has to be done there which cannot be done elsewhere? – Nermal