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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]
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.
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.
She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, [ 4 ...
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 ...
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]
[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]
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.