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Josée Auclair (born 1962), polar explorer, first Canadian woman to have headed expeditions to the North and South Poles; Kathleen Conlan (born 1950), marine biologist, explorer; Jennie Darlington (1919–2009), explorer, one of the first women to overwinter in Antarctica in 1947–48
Many early women on Antarctica were the wives of explorers. [7] Some women worked with Antarctica from afar, crafting policies for a place they had never seen. [2] Women who wished to have larger roles in Antarctica and on the continent itself had to "overcome gendered assumptions about the ice and surmount bureaucratic inertia". [8]
First team of women scientists from the United States, led by Lois Jones, works on Antarctica. [13] First group of women to reach the pole were Pamela Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill. [22] The women stepped off of the C-130 ramp at the same time. [23]
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.
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He fathered 13 legitimate children through his two wives and is said to have at least 30 illegitimate children with different women of all conditions. [189] [self-published source?] 43 Mr Pennant c. 1573 Born William ap Dafydd ap Howel ap Iorwerth he later adopted the family name Pennant, he lived in Anglesey, Wales, and died on 12 March 1581 ...
Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955) is an American author, teacher, adventurer, and public speaker. She was the first woman to finish a number of expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic . She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
Mani was the eldest among the six children. She completed her school from the Holy Mary Girls High School, Saifabad. [2] She inspired to join a space organisation after reading a NASA newspaper article about Mars. She obtained her Model Diploma for Technicians-Radio Apparatus (MDT-RA) from Masab Tank Government Polytechnic in Hyderabad. Mani ...