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  2. Women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    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 on 7 January 1978. In 1988 American Lisa Densmore became the first woman to reach the summit Mount Vinson. [102] In 1993, American Ann Bancroft led the first all woman expedition to the South Pole ...

  3. Timeline of women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    As of 2020 she holds the record for the most winters spent by a woman at the South Pole. She spent five winters total: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2004. Fiona Thornewill became first British woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole in a record breaking 41 days. [9] Linda Beilharz is the first Australian woman to ski to the ...

  4. List of Antarctic women - Wikipedia

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    Liv Arnesen (born 1953), educator, cross-country skier, first woman to ski alone to the South Pole in 1994; Ingrid Christensen (1891–1976), early polar explorer, first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland or at least view land in Antarctica (1931) Lillemor Rachlew (1902–1983), one of the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland ...

  5. Marie Darby - Wikipedia

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    Marie Büchler was born in Wellington on 2 August 1940, the daughter of Marie Payne Büchler (née Stringer), a general practitioner, and Arthur William Büchler. [2] [3] Her interest in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic began at a young age, when her mother used to take her down to the wharf to watch boats returning from the sub-Antarctic.

  6. Jennie Darlington - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Lillemor Rachlew - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Jackie Ronne - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. In-Young Ahn - Wikipedia

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    She also served as Vice President of the Korean Society of Oceanography in 2010–2011, [9] and Korea Federation of Women's Science & Technology Associations in 2014 and 2015. [10] She was expedition leader of the 28th overwintering team (2015) of the South Korean King Sejong Antarctic station, where she served as the station chief for about a ...