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[11] Using women as territorial conquest is literal in the way that Argentina flew pregnant women to Antarctica to give birth and stake a national claim to the area. [8] Silvia Morella de Palma was the first woman to give birth in Antarctica, delivering 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz) Emilio Palma at the Argentine Esperanza base 7 January 1978.
First women civilian contractors on Antarctica were Elena Marty and Jan Boyd. [12] 1975. Eleanor Honnywill is the first woman to be awarded the Fuchs Medal from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). [27] The House of Representatives in Australia is asked how many women have gone to Antarctica so far: the answer is one. [17] 1975-1976
Patricia Hepinstall at the McMurdo Station. The first women to fly to Antarctica were the American flight attendants Patricia (Pat) Hepinstall of Holyoke, Colorado, U.S. and Ruth Kelley of Houston, Texas, U.S. who were members of the crew on the Pan American flight which landed at the US McMurdo Station on October 15, 1957.
Ingrid Christensen (1891–1976), early polar explorer, first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland or at least view land in Antarctica (1931) Karen Kyllesø (2003), youngest person to ski solo and unassisted to the South Pole in January, 2025 [1] Lillemor Rachlew (1902–1983), one of the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937
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.
Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
Jones led the first female team to Antarctica with the US Antarctic Research Program in the 1969–1970 season. [5] [6] At the time Jones submitted an Antarctic research proposal to the National Science Foundation, women were still barred by the U.S. Navy from going to the continent with the US program.
Women who have explored the Arctic or Antarctic regions. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Polar explorers . It includes polar explorers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.