Timeline of women in Antarctica

This is a Timeline of women in Antarctica. This article describes many of the firsts and accomplishments that women from various countries have accomplished in different fields of endeavor on the continent of Antarctica.

The first women at the South Pole on 12 November 1969 were Pamela Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill. Rear Admiral David F. Welch is in the middle.

650s

650

1770s

1773

1776-1777

1830s

1833

  • First written account about sub-Antarctic travel from a woman's perspective is written by Abby Jane Morrell.[1]

1839

  • An unnamed female castaway who later traveled on the Eliza Scott and Sabrina journeyed "within sight of the continent."[1]

1930s

1931

  • Norwegian Ingrid Christensen and her companion, Mathilde Wegger, were the first recorded women to see Antarctica.[3]

1935

1937

  • Christensen landed at Scullin Monolith, becoming the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, followed by her daughter, Augusta Sofie Christensen, and two other women: Lillemor Rachlew, and Solveig Widerøe.[5][6][7]

1940s

1947

1947-1948

1950s

1956

  • Geologist Maria Klenova of the Soviet Union was the first woman to begin scientific work in Antarctica.[11] Klenova helped create the first Antarctic atlas.[12]
  • Jennie Darlington publishes her book about spending a year in Antarctica called My Antarctic Honeymoon.[13]

1957

1959

1959-1960

1960s

The first female Argentinian scientists in Antarctica during 1968

1960

  • Artist Nel Law is the first Australian women to set foot in Antarctica, landing at Mawson and visiting in an unofficial capacity.[16]

1968

1969

1970s

1970

  • Engineer Irene C. Peden is the first United States woman to work in the interior of Antarctica.[21]

1971

  • New Zealand limnologist Ann Chapman leads a biological survey of frozen lakes in the Taylor Valley, becoming the first woman to lead an Antarctic expedition.[22]

1974

1974-1975

  • First women civilian contractors on Antarctica were Elena Marty and Jan Boyd.[10]

1975

1975-1976

  • Mary Alice McWhinnie is the first woman scientist to work at Palmer Station.[10]
  • The first three Australian women to visit the continent of Antarctica in an official capacity -Elizabeth Chipman, Jutta Hösel and Shelagh Robinson visit Casey station for the summer.[25]

1976

  • Dr Zoe Gardner becomes the first woman to overwinter with the Australian Antarctic program as a medical officer on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.[26]

1977

  • Meher Moos becomes the first Indian woman to visit Antarctica.[27]

1978

  • Silvia Morello de Palma of Argentina is the first woman to give birth on Antarctica on January 7.[28]
  • Margaret Winslow of the United States is the first woman to lead an expedition to Livingston Island, Antarctica

1979

  • First year the United States Navy advertises for "qualified female volunteers to over-winter in Antarctica."[29]

1978-1979

  • Michele Eileen Raney is the first woman physician to work year-round on Antarctica. She was also the first woman to winter at the South Pole.[10]

1980s

1981

  • Dr Louise Holliday is the first woman to overwinter in Antarctica for the Australian Antarctic program serving as medical officer at Davis station.[26]

1983

1984

1985

  • First woman married at the South Pole is Patricia Manglicmot to Randall Chambers.[9]
  • The first women to winter-over at Palmer Station were Ann Wylette and Becky Heimark.[10]
  • Thea de Moel is the first Dutch woman to reach Antarctica as a crew member aboard the ‘Footsteps of Scott Expedition’ ship ‘Southern Quest’.

1986

1987

  • Elizabeth Chipman publishes Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South.[13]

1988

1987-1988

1988-1989

  • Alison J. Clifton commands the Macquarie Island station, becoming the first woman to lead a sub-Antarctic base.[37]

1989

1989-1990

1990s

In-Young Ahn at King Sejong Station in 2015; she led this station in 1991

1990-1991

1991

1992

1993

  • Ann Bancroft leads the first all-woman expedition to the South Pole and becomes the first woman to reach both the South and North Pole.[37]

1994

1996

1996-1997

1997-1998

  • Four Ukrainian women visited Antarctica and Ukrainian research station Vernadsky Research Base as part of the 2nd country's Antarctic expedition: geophysicist Maryna Orlova, meteorologists Svitlana Krakovska and Lyudmyla Mankivska, and cook Galyna Kolotnytska.[46]

2000s

2000

  • Zhao Ping and Lin Qing are the first Chinese women to over-winter at Antarctica.[47]
  • Fiona Thornewill and Catharine Hartley become the first British women to walk to the South Pole on foot.
  • Caroline Hamilton and four other women become the first British women to ski to the South Pole as an all-women expedition.[48]

2001

2003

2004

  • Linda Beilharz is the first Australian woman to ski to the South Pole.[51]
  • Jackie Ronne publishes her memoirs about her year in Antarctica called Antarctica's First Lady: Memoirs of the First American Woman to Set Foot on the Antarctic Continent and Winter-Over as a Member of a Pioneering Expedition.[13]

2005

2006

2007

  • Clare O'Leary is the first Irish woman to reach the South Pole.[57]
  • Sarah Ames of Germany is the first woman to complete a marathon on all seven continents.[58]

2008

  • Sumiyo Tsuzuki is the first Japanese woman to reach the South Pole.[59]

2009

2010s

Felicity Ashton in Antarctica

2010

2011

2012

  • Felicity Ashton of the United Kingdom is the first person to ski alone across Antarctica, using only her own muscle power. She is also the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.[67]
  • The first woman to climb Mount Sidley was sixteen year old Romanian Crina Coco Popescu.[68]
  • Zeena Al Towayya is the first Omani woman, and Sahar Al Shamrani is the first Saudi woman to travel to Antarctica.[69]

2014

2013

  • On December 27, 2013 Maria Leijerstam from the United Kingdom became the first person in the world to cycle to the South Pole from the edge of the Antarctic Continent.

2016

2018

  • Linda (Marie) Eketoft - lawyer, writer from Sweden became the first woman to Heliski Antarctica on 14 December 2018.

2020s

2020

  • Anja Blacha set the record for the longest solo, unsupported, unassisted polar expedition by a woman in 2020.[72][73]

See also

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