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The word antarctese

21 September 2002

If you speak this language you are one of a small but select band who know their munch from their devil’s toenails. You may have spent bitter nights dreaming of the Banana Belt and you’ll certainly never wish to be slack.

Antarctese is the peculiar lingo of the scientists and explorers of the Antarctic. Now is the time for them to brush up their vocabulary. Around the world, the Antarctic research vessels are leaving port. Steaming south for the Antarctic summer will be research ships from Australia, the US, Russia, Germany, Britain and others besides. By mid-summer the population of…

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