The first person born on the Antarctic continent was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on January 7, 1978 to Argentine parents. Emilio weighed 7½ pounds (3.4 kg) when born in Fortín Sargento Cabral, Hope Bay, at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine army detachment at the base.
Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) was the first known person to be born on the continent of Antarctica.
Emilio Palmer is the first person born at Antarctica continent in the year 1978
Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born on the Antarctic mainland.He was born on 7th January,1978.
Emilio Palma in 1978, son of Argentian officer
Antarctica has no permanent residents, but several countries keep permanent research stations there. The population on Antarctica and nearby islands varies from about 4,000 in summer to 1,000 in winter. In 1978, Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born on the Antarctic mainland. His parents were sent there with seven other Argentinean families to determine if family life was suitable on the continent. (info from PBS and Wikipedia, photo from NASA)
There's no permanent population in Antarctica, only research scientists and the occasional adventurer/explorer. Given that, I don't think anyone has been born there.At least ten children have been born there. The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on January 7, 1978
Chad Person was born in 1978.
In 2013, a person born in 1978 will turn 35.
2011-1978= 33 years old.
The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken, South Georgia.Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south of the 60th parallel south (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty), as well as the first one born on the Antarctic mainland, in 1978 at Base Esperanza, on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Louise Joy Brown was the world's first successful test tube baby. She was born on the 25th July, 1978, in Great Britain.
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