In February 1935, Caroline Mikkelsen became the first recorded woman to set foot on an Antarctic island. Learn about Mikkelsen and other women who blazed new paths on the frosty continent.
In 1895, seven men from the Norwegian whaling shipmade the first substantiated landing on the Antarctic continent. But four long decades passed before a woman could claim the same.
In the beginning, the women venturing to Antarctica often did so because their explorer husbands offered them the opportunity. , in which she admitted that “taking everything into consideration, I do not think women belong in Antarctica.”First Female Scientist in Antarctica Of course, despite the initial resistance she faced, the fact that Russian women had long served on whaling vessels in the Antarctic Circle certainly worked in Klenova’s favor. For American women, the road to the region was rockier.The U.S. Navy established McMurdo Station, America’s main Antarctic base, as a military outpost in 1956. Still, the Navy refused to transport women there.
Despite its slow reluctance to allow women in Antarctica, the U.S. Navy even sponsored a media event that included Jones’ team. On Nov. 12, 1969, the four women — plus Pam Young, a biologist doing research with the New Zealand Antarctic program, and Jean Pearson, a science writer for the Detroit Free Press — flew to the South Pole station.
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