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Kelly Falkner (born 1960), chemical oceanographer, educator. Patricia Hepinstall, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957. Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African-American woman to reach both poles. Louise Huffman (born 1951), educator specializing in polar science.
Ursula B. Marvin in Antarctica, 1978–1979. The first two U.S. woman to winter at a U.S. Antarctic research station were Mary Alice McWhinnie and. Mary Odile Cahoon. Mary Alice was the station science leader (chief scientist) at McMurdo Station in 1974 [60] and Mary Odile was a nun and biologist. [56]
1992. Judy Chesser Coffman, of the U.S. Navy, was the first female helicopter pilot to fly in Antarctica, in support of the National Science Foundation (NSF). [44] 1993. Ann Bancroft leads the first all-woman expedition to the South Pole and becomes the first woman to reach both the South and North Pole. [40] 1994.
Awards. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Harpreet Kaur "Preet" Chandi MBE (born 1988/1989) is a British physiotherapist and British Army medical officer who completed a solo expedition across Antarctica to the South Pole, finishing on 3 January 2022. [1][2][3] In January 2023, she recorded the longest ever solo and ...
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. The birth occurred at Fortín Sargento ...
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. [3 ...
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.
B. Botanists active in Antarctica (1 P) British Antarctic Territory people (1 C)