It is a loosing battle to try to make sense of the nonsensical. Only use their craziness as a source of humor and entertainment.

Well you see, the UN's logo is actually a top-down view of Earth. Apparently. Because they can't keep a conspiracy secret without leaving some clues in the open for kicks.

many countries mark Antarctica as neutral territory and there are laws surrounding what you can and cant do in Antartica so doing any business move there is probably not ideal unless you want to piss some countries off even if this is objectively going to help countries get better connected.

Meanwhile, many Australians would like to cut WA off with a chainsaw, and push it back to South Africa with all the S.Africans on it.

Spoilers, man!

Standard map projection strikes again. Starting from the tip of South Africa, it's 4300 miles to Uruguay (where you'd land straight east) and 5300 to Perth, Australia. New York City is 3300 miles to Portugal and obviously the smoothest route to Australia is hopping through southeast Asia. Coincidentally, the northern hemisphere has way more population.

Cape Town is only 34° south. Going to 34°N, you're lined up with Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta USA, then Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, then the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, middle of China, southern tip of South Korea, and grazing below Tokyo. It's still 4100 miles between Georgia (USA) and Morocco.

There are no southern polar flights and no southern undersea cables because the southern continental points aren't as far south as the northern points are north. Population volume doesn't create the demand for more direct service.