Celebrating the 50-Year Anniversary of the First All-Woman Team to Antarctica by Karen Romano Young

Celebrating the 50-Year Anniversary of the First All-Woman Team to Antarctica by Karen Romano Young

A comic of 6 women standing posing with red coats and white background with a pole behind them with a globe on it. Text: It's been 50 years since the first all-woman team of scientists landed at the South Pole and did away with the Antarctic gender ban. Ohio State University's Institute of Polar Studies, (now the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center) sent the team, which faced questions about their endurance -and need for lipstick! -and arrived arm-in-arm, so no one would have to come Second.