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Zhao Ping and Lin Qing are the first Chinese women to over-winter at Antarctica. [50] Fiona Thornewill and Catharine Hartley become the first British women to walk to the South Pole on foot. Caroline Hamilton and four other women become the first British women to ski to the South Pole as an all-women expedition. [51] 2001
There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77] The first all-women expedition reached the South Pole in 1993. [23] Diana Patterson, the first female station leader on Antarctica, saw change coming in 1995. She ...
Lois Jones (1935–2000), geochemist, led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969; Ruth Kelley, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957; Amy Leventer (graduated 1982), marine biologist, micropaleontologist; Diane McKnight (born 1953), environmental engineer, educator, editor
Timeline of women in Antarctica; W. Women in Antarctica This page was last ... This page was last edited on 19 November 2024, at 02:48 (UTC).
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.
2016–2017 – On 7 February Mike Horn completes first ever solo, unsupported north-to-south traverse of Antarctica from the Princess Astrid Coast (lat −70.1015 lon 9.8249) to the Dumont D'urville Station (lat −66.6833 lon 139.9167) via the South Pole. He arrived at the pole on 7 February 2017.
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Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.