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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]
First British woman, Janet Thomson, joins the British Antarctic Survey, and becomes the first British woman on Antarctica. [ 33 ] On November 16, American Brooke Knapp , is the first person to land at McMurdo Station for a round the world flight and the first person to pilot a business jet over both the North and South Poles.
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
Willenbring describes the harassment she faced as a young scientist on a trip to Antarctica with an all male cohort, including being called sexist names, having her abilities diminished due to being a woman, and being physically harassed as a woman, most prominently by the trip leader, David Marchant. [11]
A British Army medical officer who attempted to become the fastest woman to ski alone across Antarctica hopes her feat will show people “you can do anything”.
Hameister covered over 600 km (370 mi) from the Ross Ice Shelf at the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole. She completed the trek in 37 days and reached the South Pole on 10 January 2018. [7] Hameister claimed a handful of titles, including the youngest person in history and the first Australian woman to ski from the coast to the South Pole.
A British Army medical officer has said she has become the fastest woman to ski alone across Antarctica. Captain Harpreet Chandi, 34, already broke two Guinness World Records for polar exploration ...
250 women from the British Army applied for the expedition [6] which was open to anybody that was female and medically fit to deploy. They conducted two years of training and team selection in the United Kingdom and Norway and practised crevasse rescue techniques in Switzerland before departing for the Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions base ...