List of Antarctic women

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

  • Viviana Alder (born 1957), marine microbiologist
  • Irene Bernasconi (1896–1989), echinoderm specialist, member of the first team of Argentine scientists to work on Antarctica in 1968
  • Patricia Ortúzar (graduated 2001), geographer, writer
  • Carmen Pujals (1916–2003), botanist, member of the first team of Argentine scientists to work on Antarctica in 1968
  • Irene Schloss (PhD 1997), plankton biologist

Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Canada

  • 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

China

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

Czech Republic

Denmark

  • 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

Germany

India

Italy

Japan

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

Malaysia

Morocco

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

  • 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

Poland

Romania

Russia/Soviet Union

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

South Africa

South Korea

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

Spain

Sweden

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

  • Louise Allcock (graduated 1992), marine biologist, editor
  • Felicity Aston (born 1977), explorer, climate scientist
  • Kim Crosbie (born c.1969), environmentalist, citizen scientist, writer
  • Ginny Fiennes (1947–2004), explorer, her Transglobe Expedition team was the first to reach the two poles
  • Jane Francis (born 1956), palaeoclimatologist, director of the British Antarctic Survey
  • Helen Fricker (graduated 1991), glaciologist, writer
  • Karen Heywood (graduated 1983), oceanographer, educator
  • Eleanor Honnywill (c.1919–2003), contributor to the British Antarctic Survey, writer
  • Joanne Johnson (born 1977), geologist, writer
  • Jennifer Lee, specialist in invasion biology
  • Hannah McKeand (born 1973) beat the record for solo skiing from the coast to the pole, 39 days. Beat the record for number of South Pole expeditions.
  • Tavi Murray (PhD 1990), glaciologist
  • Elizabeth Morris (born 1946), glaciologist
  • Pom Oliver (born 1952), explorer, film producer
  • Sharon Robinson (born 1961), plant physiologist, climate change biologist
  • Jane Rumble, head of the Polar Regions Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, since 2007
  • Rosie Stancer (born 1960), explorer, adventurer
  • Janet Thomson (born 1942), geologist, first British woman to undertake field research in Antarctica
  • Fiona Thornewill (born 1966), explorer
  • Jemma Wadham (PhD 1998), glacial biogeochemist

United States

  • Ann Bancroft (born 1955), writer, educator, adventurer, first woman to complete Arctic and Antarctic expeditions
  • Jenny Baeseman (graduated 1998), civil engineer, environmentalist, geoscientist
  • Robin Bell (graduated 1980), polar ice specialist
  • Mary Odile Cahoon (1929–2011), Benedictine nun, early Antarctic biological researcher
  • Kelly Falkner (born 1960), chemical oceanographer, educator
  • Patricia Hepinstall, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957
  • Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African-American woman to reach both poles
  • Louise Huffman (born 1951), educator specializing in polar science
  • Christina Hulbe (MSc 1994), geologist, educator
  • Lois Jones (1935–2000), geochemist, led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969
  • Kelly Jemison, geologist specializing in Antarctic diatoms
  • Ruth Kelley, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957
  • Amy Leventer (graduated 1982), marine biologist, micropaleontologist
  • Diane McKnight (born 1953), environmental engineer, educator, editor
  • Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922–1980), biologist, first American woman to head an Antarctic research station
  • Jill Mikucki (graduated 1996), microbiologist
  • Robyn Millan (graduated 1995), astronomist, physicist, investigating radiation belts
  • Tori Murden (born 1963), explorer, first woman to reach the South Pole by land in 1989
  • Alison Murray (graduated 1989), microbiologist
  • Jerri Nielsen (1952–2009), physician, writer
  • Julie Palais (graduated 1974), glaciologist
  • Irene C. Peden (born 1925), electrical engineer, first American scientist to work in the Antarctic interior in 1970
  • Ann Peoples (graduated 1979), first American woman to have a management position in Antarctica
  • Erin Pettit (born 1971), glaciologist
  • Vanessa O'Brien (born 1964), mountain climber, explorer
  • Christina Riesselman (graduated 2001), paleoceanographer
  • Michelle Rogan-Finnemore (graduated 1981), scientist, legal expert
  • Jackie Ronne (1919–2009), explorer, first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48)
  • Christine Siddoway (born 1961), structural geologist
  • Deborah Steinberg (graduated 1987), oceanographer, zooplankton ecologist
  • Cristina Takacs-Vesbach (born 1968), microbial ecologist
  • Lynne Talley (born 1954), physical oceanographer
  • Trista Vick-Majors (graduated early 2000s), microbial ecologist
  • Diana Wall (PhD in 1971), environmental scientist and a soil ecologist
  • Sophie Warny (born 1969), Belgian-born palynologist
  • Terry Wilson (born 1954), geologist, tectonics specialist

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