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Why had there been no births in Antarctica before?

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There are no native peoples or permanent population on Antarctica: there are no countries. Babies can't be born without women who were not commonly included in expeditions or early forays to Antarctica.

Caroline Mikkleson, wife of a whaling ship captain first set foot on the continent in 1935, but bore no children there. Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington, both wives of explorers, overwintered in Antarctica in their husbands' 1946-48 expeditions. Again, neither bore any children there.

Argentina exported women and families to the continent in the 1970s, where the first child was born on the Esperanza research station. This, ostensibly, enhanced Argentina's claim on this Antarctic territory, which claim is overlapped by a similar claim by the United Kingdom.

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