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List of Antarctic women

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This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.

Argentina

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Australia

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  • Nerilie Abram (born 1977), climate change environmentalist
  • Leanne Armand (born 1968), marine scientist, diatom ecologist
  • Dana Bergstrom (born 1962), ecologist, biosecurity specialist, writer
  • Hope Black (born 1919), marine biologist, educator, early sub-Antarctic researcher
  • Elizabeth Chipman (born 1934), writer, one of the first Australian women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1975
  • Louise Crossley (1942–2015), South-African born environmentalist, station leader
  • Amanda Davies, geographer
  • Gwen Fenton (PhD 1985), biologist, first woman to be chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division
  • Samantha Hall (born 1982), environmental researcher
  • Catherine King (graduated 1992), environmentalist specializing in ecotoxicology research
  • Delphine Lannuzel (graduated 2001), Belgian-born biogeochemist, educator
  • Nel Law (1914–1990), artist, writer, first Australian woman to set foot in Antarctica in 1961
  • Diana Patterson (born early 1950s), first woman to head an Australian Antarctic station
  • Sally Poncet (born 1954), biologist, ornithologist, explorer
  • Anya Marie Reading (PhD 1997), seismology and computational methods
  • Patricia Margaret Selkirk (born 1942), plant biologist, ecologist
  • Justine Shaw (graduated 1996), ecologist, conservation scientist
  • Jan Strugnell (born 1976), evolutionary molecular biologist
  • Elizabeth Truswell (born 1941), palynologist, visual artist
  • Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (born 1950), one of the first two indigenous Australians to visit Antarctica
  • Barbara Wienecke (PhD 1993), Namibian-born seabird ecologist
  • Nerida Wilson (graduated 1998), invertebrate marine biologist
  • Elizabeth Leane [1] (DPhil Oxon, Rhodes Scholar), Professor of Antarctic Studies at The University of Tasmania, Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow (2004), co-lead Public Engagement with Antarctic Research Action Group as part of SCAR

Belgium

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Brazil

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Brunei

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Bulgaria

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Canada

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  • Josée Auclair (born 1962), polar explorer, first Canadian woman to have headed expeditions to the North and South Poles
  • Kathleen Conlan (born 1950), marine biologist, explorer
  • Jennie Darlington (1919–2009), explorer, one of the first women to overwinter in Antarctica in 1947–48

Chile

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China

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  • Yan Liu (graduated 2003), iceberg calving specialist, environmentalist
  • Lijie Wei (born 1974), paleontologist, stratigraphist

Czech Republic

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Denmark

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  • Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 1958), geophysicist, ice and climate researcher
  • Caroline Mikkelsen (1906 - late 1990s), explorer, first woman to set foot on Antarctica or an Antarctic island in 1935

France

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Germany

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India

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Italy

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Japan

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  • Junko Tabei (born 1939), mountaineer, the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain

Malaysia

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Morocco

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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Norway

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  • 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 in 1937
  • Cecilie Skog (born 1974), nurse, explorer, adventurer
  • Monica Kristensen Solås (born 1950), glaciologist, meteorologist, explorer

Pakistan

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Poland

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Romania

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Russia/Soviet Union

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  • Maria Klenova (1898–1976), marine geologist, first woman to undertake scientific work in Antarctica in 1956, contributing to the first Soviet Antarctic atlas

South Africa

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South Korea

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  • In-Young Ahn (graduated 1982), benthic ecologist, oceanographer
  • Ji Hee Kim (graduated 1991), biologist, environmentalist, writer
  • Hong Kum Lee (graduated 1989), marine biotechnologist

Spain

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Sweden

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Turkey

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Ukraine

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  • Halyna Kolotnytska (born 1972), cook of the second Ukrainian Antarctic expedition, 1997/98

United Kingdom

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United States

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See also

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