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In 1991 In-Young Ahn was the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station) and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [78] There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77]
1956. Geologist Maria Klenova of the Soviet Union was the first woman to begin scientific work in Antarctica. [13] Klenova helped create the first Antarctic atlas. [14]Jennie Darlington publishes her book about spending a year in Antarctica called My Antarctic Honeymoon.
Nel Law (1914–1990), artist, writer, first Australian woman to set foot in Antarctica in 1961; Diana Patterson (born early 1950s), first woman to head an Australian Antarctic station; Sally Poncet (born 1954), biologist, ornithologist, explorer; Anya Marie Reading (PhD 1997), seismology and computational methods
Four to the Pole! The American Women's Expedition to Antarctica, 1992–1993. Linnet Books. Arnesen, Liv; Ann Bancroft; with Cheryl Dahle (2003). No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-7382-0794-2. [25] The book describes Ann Bancroft's and Liv Arnesen's 1,700 mile trek across ...
Marie Büchler was born in Wellington on 2 August 1940, the daughter of Marie Payne Büchler (née Stringer), a general practitioner, and Arthur William Büchler. [2] [3] Her interest in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic began at a young age, when her mother used to take her down to the wharf to watch boats returning from the sub-Antarctic.
Lillemor Rachlew on board ship in Antarctica, 1936-37. Ingebjørg Lillemor Rachlew (née Enger; 7 January 1902 – 14 May 1983) was a Norwegian Antarctic explorer. In 1937, she was one of four Norwegian women - Rachlew, Ingrid Christensen, Augusta Sofie Christensen, and Solveig Widerøe - who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland.
Edith Jackie Ronne (October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48). [1] The Ronne Ice Shelf was named by her husband after her.
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