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A woman working at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Field Camp in 2012.. Women have been exploring the regions around Antarctica for many centuries. The most celebrated "first" for women in Antarctica was in 1935 when Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot on one of Antarctica's islands. [1]
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Jackie Ronne (1919–2009), explorer, first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48) Karen Schwall, first female Army officer in Antarctica and first woman to manage McMurdo Station; Christine Siddoway (born 1961), structural geologist; Deborah Steinberg (graduated 1987), oceanographer, zooplankton ecologist
She built a jury rig and diverted to Cape Town where she spent two months repairing her yacht, [2] [7] before recommencing her voyage to circumnavigate Antarctica and became the first female solo sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica with one stop. [1] [8] The whole trip, including the stop in Cape Town, took 183 days 7 hours and 21 minutes. [9]
[14] [15] [16] Christensen flew over the mainland, becoming the first woman to see Antarctica from the air. [13] On 30 January 1937, Lars Christensen's diary records that Ingrid Christensen landed at Scullin Monolith, becoming the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, followed by the other three of the 'four ladies'. [1] [6] [17]
Leader of the first all-female expedition to the South Pole in 1992–1993. [5] Included in Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century in 1998. [5] Second woman (after Liv Arnesen) to cross Antarctica on foot in 2001. Named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine in 2001. [5] Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame for the United States ...
First all-female over-wintering group spends the winter at Georg von Neumayer, with leader Monika Puskeppeleit. [27] 1991. In-Young Ahn is the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station), and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [41] Serap Tilav is the first Turkish woman at the South Pole. [42]
Jennie Darlington (née Zobrist, 1924–2017) was an American explorer and, with Jackie Ronne, one of the first women to overwinter on Antarctica, during the winter of 1947-1948. [1] [2] She and Ronne were part of a team that re-occupied a former U.S. station (from the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition in 1939) on Stonington Island in 1946.