Antarctica

from The Oxford Guide to World English

Tom McArthur
Oxford University Press, 2002

A range of Western European languages has been in use in and near Antarctica for much
of the last hundred years, including English, French, German, the Scandinavian
languages, and Spanish (from nearby Argentina and Chile), and English has served as the
lingua franca among the many nations with a stake in the region. The kind of English
used in Antarctica can nowadays beFhound in any heterogeneous international setting
(for example, at United Nations gatherings, scientific conferences, and meetings of aid
organizations worldwide), but in the Antarctic such English includes a great deal of
technical usage focused on geology, meteorology, ecology, survival skills, and related
fields. [p. 405]