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The U.S. Navy also considered Antarctica a "male-only bastion." [28] Admiral George Dufek said in 1956 that "women would join American Teams in the Antarctic over his dead body." [29] He also believed that women's presence on Antarctica "would wreck men's illusions of being heroes and frontiersmen."
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Jackie Ronne (1919–2009), explorer, first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48) Karen Schwall, first female Army officer in Antarctica and first woman to manage McMurdo Station; Christine Siddoway (born 1961), structural geologist; Deborah Steinberg (graduated 1987), oceanographer, zooplankton ecologist
Hameister covered over 600 km (370 mi) from the Ross Ice Shelf at the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole. She completed the trek in 37 days and reached the South Pole on 10 January 2018. [7] Hameister claimed a handful of titles, including the youngest person in history and the first Australian woman to ski from the coast to the South Pole.
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The first women to winter-over at Palmer Station were Ann Wylette and Becky Heimark. [12] Thea de Moel is the first Dutch woman to reach Antarctica as a crew member aboard the 'Footsteps of Scott Expedition' ship Southern Quest. 1986. The first Polar Medal is awarded to a woman, Virginia Fiennes, who was honored for her work in the Transglobe ...
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At least 11 children have been born in Antarctica. [4] The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on 7 January 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. [5] The first girl born on the Antarctic continent was Marisa De Las Nieves Delgado, born on 27 May 1978.