Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996)Gravminner i Norge.
DIS Norge. Retrieved on 7 November 2008. was a Norwegian who was the first person born south of the

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, in

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, South Georgia in 1913. Her father, Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874–1953), settled in South Georgia in 1904 to become assistant manager, and from 1914 to 1921 manager of the

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industr ...

station. Two other daughters of Jacobsen's and his wife Klara Olette Jacobsen, Signe Fon (Jacobsen) and Åse Jacobsen were also born on the island. Solveig's birth was registered by the resident British Stipendiary Magistrate of South Georgia, James Wilson.

First person born in Antarctica

Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen was the first person born and raised south of the

, and South Georgia is usually classified as an Antarctic island and part of the Antarctic for that reason. The first human born south of the Convergence was the

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James Kerguelen Robinson, born in Kerguelen Islands on 11 March 1859.Ivanov, L. and N. Ivanova. Livingston Island. In
''Antarctic: Nature, History, Utilization, Geographic Names and Bulgarian Participation''.
Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2014. 368 pp. (in Bulgarian)
Second revised and updated edition
2014. 411 pp. ) The

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defines Antarctica as any territory located South of the 60th parallel, which excludes both South Georgia and Kerguelen. The first person born in the Antarctic Treaty area (also first on the Antarctic mainland) was Emilio Palma, born at the Argentine

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in 1978.

Death

She died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 83, and was buried in Molde, Norway.

Legacy

Jacobsen Valley in

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is named after Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen.

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History of Antarctica South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands people History of South Georgia Norwegian emigrants to Argentina 1913 births 1996 deaths {{Authority control

First person born in Antarctica

Death

Legacy

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