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Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km (5 mi) wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km (10 mi), in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
In 1991 In-Young Ahn was the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station) and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [78] 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]
They believed the ship was going to stop in the stunning Paradise Bay, in Antarctica. But instead it stopped only at Admiralty Bay, an island 200 miles to the north, before continuing back to the ...
The church, one of the southernmost in the world and one of the few permanent structures in Antarctica, is permanently staffed by a priest. [citation needed] The first attempted murder in Antarctica occurred on the island in 2018 at Bellingshausen Station. [13] Point Thomas lighthouse at Arctowski Station is the most southerly lighthouse of the ...
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First British woman, Janet Thomson, joins the British Antarctic Survey, and becomes the first British woman on Antarctica. [ 33 ] On November 16, American Brooke Knapp , is the first person to land at McMurdo Station for a round the world flight and the first person to pilot a business jet over both the North and South Poles.
The islands were discovered by British mariner William Smith, in William, in 1819.Although Dutch mariner Dirck Gerritsz in 1599 or Spanish Admiral Gabriel de Castilla in 1603 might have sighted the South Shetlands, or North or South American sealers might have visited the archipelago before Smith, historical evidence is insufficient to sustain such assertions.
The first, and still only American woman at the helm of a mega cruise ship. The first woman to start up a new ship and take it out of a shipyard. The first woman captain for Celebrity Cruises.