Dr Bernadette Hince
Australian National Dictionary Centre
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Bernadette Hince is an Honorary Lecturer at the ANU Australian National Dictionary Centre in the College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Dr Hince has made five trips to antarctic regions. For her PhD she researched the environmental history of subantarctic Heard, Macquarie, Auckland, Campbell, St Paul and Amsterdam Islands. She has published two polar dictionaries, ‘The Antarctic Dictionary‘ (2000) and ‘Cold Words‘ (2025), which covers antarctic and arctic English. She is fond of the alphabet, and has also ridden her bike to visit every Canberra suburb alphabetically.
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Glacial glossary: words from the polar regions
“My name is Dave and I’m an auroraholic,” said a man in a 2019 Adelaide newspaper. Auroras are…