An analysis of the range of geomagnetic variations as measured at Arrival Heights and South Pole stations in the Antarctic over an 8-year interval during the present solar cycle shows that there are quasi-DC level shifts in some of the magnetic components during austral summer conditions when referenced to austral winter. The most dramatic of these level shifts in the signal occurs in the D-component (west-east magnetic component) at Arrival Heights (geomagnetic latitude ~79¿S). The onsets of the D-component shifts occur during a period that lasts one to several days in late austral spring. Such geomagnetic variations would not appear to arise from magnetosphere processes coupling to the ionospheric E-region. The inferred quasi-steady ionospheric current is estimated to be of the order of ~105 amps above Arrival Heights. It is speculated that neutral wind dynamics with quasi-steady E-region (~110--115 km) neutral wind speeds of ~10 m/sec directed east to west above AH are responsible for generating the austral summer electrical currents in the E-region.