How can you ensure that no one travels to Antarctica? You have to guard 74,398.16 miles. You need 1116 cruisers manned over 15 years with 3,348 million keeper of secrets.

How to get these numbers - step by step:

Supporters of the flat Earth narrative say that we are surrounded by an ice wall (= Antarctica), and that independent research on this ice wall has been made impossible since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 at the latest. It is said that people are being prevented from entering the ice wall by force. This is also supposed to explain why there are so few (good) photos and videos of the ice wall.

What would a corresponding defense of researchers of the ice wall have looked like in the early years after 1959?

The known flat Earth model assumes a diameter of about 25,000 miles. It is understandable that any intruding ships would have to be intercepted several hundred miles from the ice wall, say 500 miles from the ice wall. If we subtract 1,000 miles from the assumed flat Earth diameter, this results in a perimeter of the no-go zone of 74,398.16 miles.

What does it take to convincingly deter a research ship or fleet from entering the ice wall? Every hundred miles, a medium-sized ship cruiser would have to be ready to intercept and stop the research ship or ships. After all, you don't know if the research ships aren't even built to military standards themselves. Prepare for the worst!

So, 744 medium-sized ship cruisers would be needed to patrol around the ice wall and be ready for the event that research ships travel to the ice wall in violation of the treaty. However, because ships can also break down, need to be refueled, and a ship's crew also needs food, water and a vacation from time to time and it takes time to travel to the location, it is assumed that at least half the amount of ships is needed in addition. (I would say, you need twice the fleet, but let's stick with only 50% more) This brings us to a need for 1,116 medium-sized cruisers to guard the ice wall.

If we look at the medium-sized US cruisers that were in service from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, we are presented with ships of the Boston-Class, the Galveston-Class, and the Providence-Class. These are all ships with impressive and intimidating weapon arsenal.

How many crew is needed for such medium-sized cruiser? According to the US Navy, it is about 1,200 soldiers.

So, the guarding of the ice wall needs 1,116x1,200 soldiers, which is 1,339,200 soldiers. If we assume that soldiers do not stay in the army or in service for their entire lives but only do (very roughly estimated) 10 years of service on a ship, then between 1959 and 1974, 3,348,000 soldiers were involved in the guarding of the ice wall.

None of them has reported their long-term deployment in antarctica region, and this speaks very well for the quality of the secrecy oath that had to be taken by over 3.348 million people.

Impressive.