No, and it's extraordinarily glib and facile to attempt to explain European "dominance" that way. The Southern Hemisphere is absolutely navigable. Polynesian navigators sailed open boats over thousands of miles of open ocean, crossing the terraqueous globe that spans half that side of the earth, at a time when European navigators had trouble crossing the English Channel on a regular basis. (Bligh's voyage of 2,000 miles in an open boat, with European charts and navigational instruments, is still considered a minor marvel, but Polynesians regularly traveled that distance.)
There are multiple posts in this subreddit about antipodal navigation that may be useful for you to read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4t854d/there_are_huge_gaps_between_islands_in_the/