Jonah: A minor, and now (to judge from Google) utterly forgotten scandal occurred back in the 1970s when the first Chinese set foot in Antarctica. They were sailors from a Chinese vessel, and they did not, to put it mildly, show proper respect for the wildlife. They were reported to have played soccer with live penguins.

The Chinese in Antarctica are now much better behaved, and have been making sensational discoveries about penguin poop.