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There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77] The first all-women expedition reached the South Pole in 1993. [23] Diana Patterson, the first female station leader on Antarctica, saw change coming in 1995. She ...
Liv Arnesen (born 1953), educator, cross-country skier, first woman to ski alone to the South Pole in 1994; Ingrid Christensen (1891–1976), early polar explorer, first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland or at least view land in Antarctica (1931) Lillemor Rachlew (1902–1983), one of the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland ...
As of 2020 she holds the record for the most winters spent by a woman at the South Pole. She spent five winters total: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2004. Fiona Thornewill became first British woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole in a record breaking 41 days. [9] Linda Beilharz is the first Australian woman to ski to the ...
Women in Antarctica This page was last edited on 19 November 2024, at 02:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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.
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.
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien (born 2 December 1964) is an extreme tourist and former business executive. [2] [3] On 4 August 2022, O'Brien became the first woman to complete the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta – reaching extremes on land, sea, and air after she passed the Kármán line as part of Blue Origin NS-22 spaceflight. [4]
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