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At least 11 children have been born in Antarctica. [4] The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on 7 January 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. [5] The first girl born on the Antarctic continent was Marisa De Las Nieves Delgado, born on 27 May 1978.
Two isolated Indigenous peoples of Ecuador live in the Amazon region: the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Both are eastern Huaorani peoples living in Yasuni National Park. These semi-nomadic people live in small groups, subsisting on hunting, gathering, and some crops. They are organized into extended families. [21]
The population of Turkmenistan increased from 1.5 million in the 1959 census to 4.5 million in the 1995 census. [3] The population continued growing to over 5 million in 2001–2006. [4] According to opposition media, Turkmenistan's population in 2019 was no more than 3.3 million. [5]
Tens of thousands of people live north of the Arctic Circle and many hundreds of thousands more within the Arctic Ocean drainage basin but outside of the Circle. The only parts of the Arctic that are truly uninhabited are the interior and northernmost coasts of Greenland , many of the islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and some other ...
The name of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country".The name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological system.
Very high human development 1 Ashghabat City: 0.800 High human development 2 Balkan Velayat: 0.756 3 Lebap Velayat: 0.750 – Turkmenistan: 0.744: 4 Ahal Velayat: 0.738 5 Mary Velayat: 0.723 6 Dashoghuz Velayat: 0.722
The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study.
Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz). His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base. [1] While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost.