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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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Aditi Pant (born 5 July 1943 [1]), is an Indian oceanographer. She was the first Indian woman to visit Antarctica, alongside geologist Sudipta Sengupta in 1983 as part of the Indian Antarctic Program .
Nel Law (1914–1990), artist, writer, first Australian woman to set foot in Antarctica in 1961; Diana Patterson (born early 1950s), first woman to head an Australian Antarctic station; Sally Poncet (born 1954), biologist, ornithologist, explorer; Anya Marie Reading (PhD 1997), seismology and computational methods
Victoria Murden McClure (born March 6, 1963 [1]) is an athlete, adventurer, chaplain, lawyer, and university administrator who was the first woman and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1999. [2]
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.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People of Antarctica. It includes People of Antarctica that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Lillemor Rachlew on board ship in Antarctica, 1936-37. Ingebjørg Lillemor Rachlew (née Enger; 7 January 1902 – 14 May 1983) was a Norwegian Antarctic explorer. In 1937, she was one of four Norwegian women - Rachlew, Ingrid Christensen, Augusta Sofie Christensen, and Solveig Widerøe - who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland.