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Elizabeth Chipman publishes Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South. [15] 1988. American Lisa Densmore is the first woman to summit Mount Vinson. [39] 1987-1988. First South African women to over-winter at Marion Island were Marianna Steenkamp and Marieta Cawood. [27] 1988-1989
[11] Using women as territorial conquest is literal in the way that Argentina flew pregnant women to Antarctica to give birth and stake a national claim to the area. [8] 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 7 January 1978.
This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.
Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
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1992–1993 – American Women's Antarctic Expedition- AWE. First team of women to ski to the South Pole: Ann Bancroft, Sunniva Sorby, Anne DalVera, Sue Giller- 67 days; 1992–1993 – British Polar Plod – led by Ranulph Fiennes with Mike Stroud (physician), first unassisted expedition crossing the continent by ski, (2,173 km in 95 days)
[14] [15] [16] Christensen flew over the mainland, becoming the first woman to see Antarctica from the air. [13] On 30 January 1937, Lars Christensen's diary records that Ingrid Christensen landed at Scullin Monolith, becoming the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, followed by the other three of the 'four ladies'. [1] [6] [17]
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