Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01466-4, published online 24 May 2021.

In the version of this Comment originally published, there were errors in the main text, Fig. 1 and the reference list.

In the first paragraph, the text ‘Ahead of a likely review of the ATS in 2048...’ should have read ‘Ahead of possible review of the ATS after 2048...’.

In Fig. 1, the event in the timeline at 2048 mistakenly read ‘A review of the Antarctic Treaty will chart a course for future management of Antarctica’; it should have been ‘Ongoing review of the Antarctic Treaty System will chart a course for future management of Antarctica.’

Finally, ref. 1 mistakenly cited ‘Mancilla, A. Ethics Int. Aff. 32, 339–360 (2018)’; it should have cited ‘Gilbert, N. & Hemmings, A. D. Antarctic 33, 29–31 (2015).’

These errors have now been corrected.