First Child Born in Antarctica

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on March 16, 2009 at 10:10 am



Emilio Marcos Palma made history, and the Guiness Book of World Records, in 1978 just by being born! His father was in charge of the Argentine army’s Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. As a political ploy, the government of Argentina airlifted his mother to the base to give birth. Parts of the territory in which Esperanza Base is located are claimed by Argentina, Chile, and the UK. The Guinness Book lists him as the only person identified to have been the first born on any continent. He is also the southernmost human birth known, although two other people have since been born in Antarctic territory. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Esperanza Base (pictured) is now inhabited by 55 people, including ten families and two schoolteachers! Link

(image credit: © Samuel Blanc)


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8 comments to "First Child Born in Antarctica"

  1. Gauldar
    March 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am

    I mean, if you honestly go through all this effort to orchistrate getting a kids name in the The Guinness Book of Records, the only logical thing to do once the kid is born would be to name the him Huge Jass.

  2. V
    March 16th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Along the war for the Falkland Islands this shows how desperate the military government of Argentine was at the time.

    .-

  3. xultar
    March 16th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    When he pees is his urine clockwise or counter clockwise?

    Inquiring minds wanna frackin know.

  4. Kalel
    March 16th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    This tactic is very common in history, right up to today's headlines. If you put want a land, put your people there and make a community... within two generations, they will think of it as home, and fight to the death for it.

  5. Marilyn Terrell
    March 16th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    What about Emilio Markos Palma, who was born in Antarctica in 1978.

  6. Wes
    March 16th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    "... would be to name the him Huge Jass."

    Or Hugh, perhaps?

  7. Gauldar
    March 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    @Wes

    I don't get it.

  8. Miss Cellania
    March 16th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    @Marilyn

    This is all I could find on him. What else did you want?


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