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Timeline of women in Antarctica. The first women at the South Pole were Pamela Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill on 12 November 1969. Rear Admiral David F. Welch is in the middle. This is a Timeline of women in Antarctica. This article describes many of the firsts and accomplishments that women ...
Ursula B. Marvin in Antarctica, 1978–1979. The first two U.S. woman to winter at a U.S. Antarctic research station were Mary Alice McWhinnie and. Mary Odile Cahoon. Mary Alice was the station science leader (chief scientist) at McMurdo Station in 1974 [60] and Mary Odile was a nun and biologist. [56]
The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD. The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and ...
1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson. 1914–1916 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton. 1914–1917 – Ross Sea party – led by Aeneas Mackintosh. 1920–1922 – British Graham Land Expedition – a British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope.
Timeline of women in Antarctica; W. Women in Antarctica This page was last edited on 10 December 2023, at 21:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Kelly Falkner (born 1960), chemical oceanographer, educator. Patricia Hepinstall, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957. Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African-American woman to reach both poles. Louise Huffman (born 1951), educator specializing in polar science.
Spouse. Finn Ronne. . (m. 1941–1980) . (his death) Edith Jackie Ronne (October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48). [1] The Ronne Ice Shelf was named by her husband after her. [2]
Timeline of Antarctic history; List of years by country This page was last edited on 18 December 2023, at 16:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...