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1956. Geologist Maria Klenova of the Soviet Union was the first woman to begin scientific work in Antarctica. [13] Klenova helped create the first Antarctic atlas. [14]Jennie Darlington publishes her book about spending a year in Antarctica called My Antarctic Honeymoon.
This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.
[11] Using women as territorial conquest is literal in the way that Argentina flew pregnant women to Antarctica to give birth and stake a national claim to the area. [8] Silvia Morella de Palma was the first woman to give birth in Antarctica, delivering 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz) Emilio Palma at the Argentine Esperanza base 7 January 1978.
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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.
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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.
Patricia Hepinstall at the McMurdo Station. The first women to fly to Antarctica were the American flight attendants Patricia (Pat) Hepinstall of Holyoke, Colorado, U.S. and Ruth Kelley of Houston, Texas, U.S. who were members of the crew on the Pan American flight which landed at the US McMurdo Station on October 15, 1957.