why Antarctic research needs to shed its exclusionary past
- Written by Meredith Nash, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Tasmania
Herbert Ponting/Royal Collection Trust/Wikimedia CommonsThe icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820, Antarctica would not be visited by a woman for well over a century.
In 1935, Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen, a whaler’s wife, became the first woman to do so, some 24 years after her compatriot...





