This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.

Argentina

Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Canada

  • Josée Auclair (born 1962), polar explorer, first Canadian woman to have headed expeditions to the North and South Poles
  • Kathleen Conlan (born 1950), marine biologist, explorer
  • Jennie Darlington (1919–2009), explorer, one of the first women to overwinter in Antarctica in 1947–48

Chile

China

  • Yan Liu (graduated 2003), iceberg calving specialist, environmentalist
  • Lijie Wei (born 1974), paleontologist, stratigraphist

Czech Republic

Denmark

  • Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 1958), geophysicist, ice and climate researcher
  • Caroline Mikkelsen (1906 - late 1990s), explorer, first woman to set foot on Antarctica or an Antarctic island in 1935

France

Germany

India

Italy

Japan

  • Junko Tabei (born 1939), mountaineer, the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain

Malaysia

Morocco

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

  • Liv Arnesen (born 1953) educator, cross-country skier, first woman to ski alone to the South Pole in 1994
  • Ingrid Christensen (1891–1976), early polar explorer, first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland or at least view land in Antarctica (1931)
  • Lillemor Rachlew (1902–1983), one of the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937
  • Cecilie Skog (born 1974), nurse, explorer, adventurer
  • Monica Kristensen Solås (born 1950), glaciologist, meteorologist, explorer

Pakistan

Poland

Romania

Russia/Soviet Union

  • Maria Klenova (1898–1976), marine geologist, first women to undertake scientific work in Antarctica in 1956, contributing to the first Soviet Antarctic atlas

South Africa

South Korea

  • In-Young Ahn (graduated 1982), benthic ecologist, oceanographer
  • Ji Hee Kim (graduated 1991), biologist, environmentalist, writer
  • Hong Kum Lee (graduated 1989), marine biotechnologist

Spain

Sweden

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

  • Ann Bancroft (born 1955), writer, educator, adventurer, first woman to complete Arctic and Antarctic expeditions
  • Jenny Baeseman (graduated 1998), civil engineer, environmentalist, geoscientist
  • Robin Bell (graduated 1980), polar ice specialist
  • Mary Odile Cahoon (1929–2011), Benedictine nun, early Antarctic biological researcher
  • Kelly Falkner (born 1960), chemical oceanographer, educator
  • Patricia Hepinstall, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957
  • Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African-American woman to reach both poles
  • Louise Huffman (born 1951), educator specializing in polar science
  • Christina Hulbe (MSc 1994), geologist, educator
  • Lois Jones (1935–2000), geochemist, led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969
  • Kelly Jemison, geologist specializing in Antarctic diatoms
  • Ruth Kelley, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957
  • Amy Leventer (graduated 1982), marine biologist, micropaleontologist
  • Diane McKnight (born 1953), environmental engineer, educator, editor
  • Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922–1980), biologist, first American woman to head an Antarctic research station
  • Jill Mikucki (graduated 1996), microbiologist
  • Robyn Millan (graduated 1995), astronomist, physicist, investigating radiation belts
  • Tori Murden (born 1963), explorer, first woman to reach the South Pole by land in 1989
  • Alison Murray (graduated 1989), microbiologist
  • Jerri Nielsen (1952–2009), physician, writer
  • Julie Palais (graduated 1974), glaciologist
  • Irene C. Peden (born 1925), electrical engineer, first American scientist to work in the Antarctic interior in 1970
  • Ann Peoples (graduated 1979), first American woman to have a management position in Antarctica
  • Erin Pettit (born 1971), glaciologist
  • Vanessa O'Brien (born 1964), mountain climber, explorer
  • Christina Riesselman (graduated 2001), paleoceanographer
  • Michelle Rogan-Finnemore (graduated 1981), scientist, legal expert
  • Jackie Ronne (1919–2009), explorer, first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48)
  • Christine Siddoway (born 1961), structural geologist
  • Deborah Steinberg (graduated 1987), oceanographer, zooplankton ecologist
  • Cristina Takacs-Vesbach (born 1968), microbial ecologist
  • Lynne Talley (born 1954), physical oceanographer
  • Trista Vick-Majors (graduated early 2000s), microbial ecologist
  • Diana Wall (PhD in 1971), environmental scientist and a soil ecologist
  • Sophie Warny (born 1969), Belgian-born palynologist
  • Terry Wilson (born 1954), geologist, tectonics specialist

See also

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