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Elizabeth Chipman publishes Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South. [15] 1988. American Lisa Densmore is the first woman to summit Mount Vinson. [39] 1987-1988. First South African women to over-winter at Marion Island were Marianna Steenkamp and Marieta Cawood. [27] 1988-1989
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]
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 (born 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 ...
1992–1993 – American Women's Antarctic Expedition- AWE. First team of women to ski to the South Pole: Ann Bancroft, Sunniva Sorby, Anne DalVera, Sue Giller- 67 days; 1992–1993 – British Polar Plod – led by Ranulph Fiennes with Mike Stroud (physician), first unassisted expedition crossing the continent by ski, (2,173 km in 95 days)
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.
She and Jennie Darlington, the wife of the expedition's chief pilot, became the first women to overwinter in Antarctica. [1] They spent 15 months together with 21 other members of the expedition in a small station they had set up As the expedition's recorder and historian, Ronne wrote the news releases for the North American Newspaper Alliance.
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