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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]
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 ...
Nationality. Norwegian. Known for. First woman in Antarctica. Spouse. Lars Christensen. Ingrid Christensen (10 October 1891 – 18 June 1976) was an early polar explorer. She was known as the first woman to view Antarctica and land on the Antarctic mainland. [1]
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.
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.
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.
Spouse. Finn Ronne. . (m. 1941–1980) . (his death) 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]
Sudipta Sengupta (born 20 August 1946) is a professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and a trained mountaineer. She is one of the first Indian women (along with Aditi Pant) to set foot on Antarctica. [1] She is also popularly known in India for her book Antarctica in Bengali and numerous articles and television ...
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