It's perfectly contextual (the whole point of the article is looking past records kept by European explorers). I think maybe people grate at seeing the words "white|European male" in any context but that's not the writers problem, that's a fact integral to the story.

Here's the passage in question for those that haven't seen TFA.

>Wehi said collating traditional Maori accounts helped give a broader view of Antarctic history, beyond the accounts of European male explorers that usually predominate.

>"History tends to be told by one voice and there's often a dominant narrative," she told the New Zealand Herald.

> "Often indigenous history and even women's history becomes invisible, so for me it's about making that history visible."