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Dr Zoe Gardner becomes the first woman to winter with the Australian Antarctic Program as a medical officer on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. [29] 1977. Meher Moos becomes the first Indian woman to visit Antarctica. [30] 1978. Silvia Morello de Palma of Argentina is the first woman to give birth on Antarctica on January 7. [31]
She wrote a memoir about her experiences, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean, published by HarperCollins in 2009. She is also noted for her 700-mile ski across the South Pole (the first woman to ski to the South Pole), and she was the first woman to climb the Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic.
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.
A woman working at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Field Camp in 2012.. Women have been exploring the regions around Antarctica for many centuries. The most celebrated "first" for women in Antarctica was in 1935 when Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot on one of Antarctica's islands. [1]
A British Army medical officer who attempted to become the fastest woman to ski alone across Antarctica hopes her feat will show people “you can do anything”.
A British Army medical officer has said she has become the fastest woman to ski alone across Antarctica. ... She first made history by becoming the first woman of colour to complete a 700-mile ...
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.
First woman on an Antarctic island Caroline Mikkelsen (20 November 1906 [ 1 ] – 15 September 1998, [ 2 ] later married Mandel ) was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who on 20 February 1935 was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica , [ 3 ] although whether this was on the mainland or an island is a matter of dispute.