50 years of women in Antarctica

17 January 2026/in News & Events/by webmaster

Ice breakers – 50 years of women in Antarctica (AAD) Fifty years ago, on 19 January 1976, four women arrived at Casey aboard Thala Dan to become the first women to visit a continental station as part of ANARE.  They were Antarctic Division staff Jutta Hosel, Shelagh Robinson and Elizabeth Chipman, all prominent ANARE Club […]