Dr Verena Meraldi is chief scientist at Hurtigruten, a Norwegian cruise liner which sails from the bottom of Argentina, across the waves of Drake Passage to Antarctica
Ernest Shackleton and his team of 14 men lived in a wooden hut at Cape Royds, next to Pony Lake, on McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic and prepared to attempt to reach the South Pole
Even though there are no settled residents, scientists have studied the dialect of people working in Antarctica and found that they have developed their own regional dialect