One giant leap for womankind: Women at the South Pole

March 19, 2021

One giant leap for womankind: Women at the South Pole

A group of women stand to take a photo at the south pole. The majority of the group is wearing heavy red coats. There is one individual in the center wearing a black coat.

In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating the first all-female Antarctic research expedition! In 1969 researchers from the Institute of Polar Studies (now called the Byrd Center) at The Ohio State University, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Terry Tickhill Terrell, and Kay Lindsay, flew to Antarctica for research and made history.