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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]
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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
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.
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.
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.
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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 ...