Antarctican

1. nonstandardnot comparableAntarctic; of or pertaining to Antarctica.

   ...West Antarctican part of Gondwanaland are very informative.

   1859, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, Governor-General of India, page 119

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   By studying the modern trends of international affairs it may be very easily understood that the Antarctican shores are gradually becoming important naval bases.

   a. 1951, The Modern Review, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, page 383

   This fascinating view of Mendez-Correa may not seem too incredible, as actually the Antarctican shores might have possessed warm regions...

   1951 May, The Modern Review, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, page 384

   Nevertheless, the possibility of trans-Antarctican airways between South America and Australasia seems a much more remote possibility

   1957, Kenneth Royston Sealy, The Geography of Air Transport, Hutchinson University Library, page 93

   At various times he was President of the American Polar Society, the Association of American Geographers and the Antarctican Society.

   1959, Polar Record, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University Press, page 858

   Did it belong to South America or to Antarctica? Where was the junction or separation of the Andean and Antarctican mountain systems?

   1965, Richard S. Lewis, “A Continent for Science”, in The Antarctic Adventure, Viking press, page 118

   Synonyms: Antarctic

plural Antarcticans

1. hypotheticalfictionA native of Antarctica.

   Had the US Navy icebreakers been unable to rescue them from the ice in early 1948 her child might have been the first native-born Antarctican.

   1956, Walter Sullivan, Quest for a Continent, McGraw-Hill, page 273

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   ...customs which the Antarcticans might have. How he wished he had made the trip alone, and need not share with Adam the scientific triumphs to come! Of course she was—the daughter of Morrison, Hull’s companion who had befriended and protected him against the Antarcticans.

   1935, Edison Marshall, Dian of the Lost Land, H. C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., pages 53 and 62

   Gonneville departed this enchanted land...taking with him...an “Indian” prince called Essomeric. The land was not, of course, the southern continent, and Essomeric was not an Antarctican. De Gonneville had probably been to southern Brazil.

   2001, Kieran Mulvaney, At the Ends of the Earth: History of the Polar Regions, Island Press, →ISBN, page 67

   Recall the exercise at the end of the previous chapter, and imagine that you discover just one Antarctican, and you measure his or her body temperature. If you know the population mean for Antarcticans (perhaps it is 98.6°F), then you have one piece of information about variability.

   2004, R. Brooke Lea, Barry H. Cohen, Essentials of Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 45

   Part of the reason is that there is an indigenous tradition of consuming seals in the north for subsistence, whereas sealing in the south was done almost exclusively for commercial reasons, there being no native Antarcticans.

   2006, William L. Fox, Driving to Mars, Shoemaker & Hoard, →ISBN, page 227

2. humoroussometimesOne who has spent time in Antarctica, especially a scientist or researcher.

   I’m an Antarctican; I can sleep on the ground.

   1987, Michael Parfit, South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent, Collier Books, →ISBN, page 273

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   ...the easy-going good nature and “she’s right, mate,” attitude of the genuine Australian is a simple but practical outlook which could well be copied by many future Antarcticans.

   1956, Antarctic, New Zealand Antarctic Society

   We were not the only Antarcticans flying early this 1958-59 season. Soviet scientists across the icecap were planning an over-snow traverse toward the South Pole and wanted to survey the route by air.

   1959, The National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Society, page 541

   The Antarcticans sense that life must be asserted here. It cannot draw back before these wastes, but must subdue them if only to demonstrate its viability.

   1965, Richard S. Lewis, “A Continent for Science”, in The Antarctic Adventure, Viking Press, page 258

   You should also have little trouble finding some glacier ice for your whiskey; many Antarcticans enjoy sipping their Scotch on very old rocks!

   2005, Jeff Rubin et al., Antarctica, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 81