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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.
Delphine Lannuzel (graduated 2001), Belgian-born biogeochemist, educator. Nel Law (1914–1990), artist, writer, first Australian woman to set foot in Antarctica in 1961. Diana Patterson (born early 1950s), first woman to head an Australian Antarctic station. Sally Poncet (born 1954), biologist, ornithologist, explorer.
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.
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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]
Leader of the first all-female expedition to the South Pole in 1992–1993. [5] Included in Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century in 1998. [5] Second woman (after Liv Arnesen) to cross Antarctica on foot in 2001. Named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine in 2001. [5] Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame for the United States ...
Youngest woman to cross Greenland icecap. Jade Hameister OAM (born 5 June 2001) is an Australian woman who, at age 16, became the youngest person in history to pull off the "polar hat-trick", ski to the North and South Poles, and cross the second largest polar icecap on the planet: Greenland. [1] Hameister travelled over 1,300 km (800 mi) on ...