Caroline Mikkelsen

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Caroline Mikkelsen (1906 in Norway) was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica. In the winter of 1934-1935, she accompanied her husband, Captain Klarius Mikkelsen, on an expedition sponsored by Lars Christensen. On February 20, 1935, the expedition made landfall at the Vestfold Hills; she left the ship and participated in building a memorial cairn. A mountain in Antarctica is named for her.^[1]

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• http://www.antarctic-circle.org/firsts.htm
• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E7DD113EF933A25752C1A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all