Emilio Palma

Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978 in the Esperanza station , Antarctic Peninsula ) is the first person to be born on the Antarctic mainland. As a result, he was born further south than any other human person known to date, namely further south than Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (1913-1996), who was born in South Georgia .

His parents, the then 31-year-old Argentine Army Captain Jorge Emilio Palma and his wife Silvia Morello de Palma, came to the base in mid-November 1977 with the annual replacement team . With this transfer, entire families came to the ward for the first time, including seven children of school age. Emilio Marcos was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral on the premises of the Esperanza station in Bahía Esperanza near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The obstetrician was the base doctor and the chief doctor of the gynecological department of the military hospital in Buenos Airespresent. Palma is the only person known to be the first to be born on a continent, and as such was inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records .

In addition to Emilio Palma, the Argentine civil status register Esperanza records seven other people born between 1978 and 1983 on the ward, three women and four men.

Because Emilio Palma's parents are Argentine citizens and he was born in an Argentine station on the Antarctic territory claimed by Argentina , he was granted Argentine citizenship at birth. The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the Antarctic area, which is also claimed by Chilean and British forces . Since British nationality was acquired by birth on British territory prior to 1983, Palma could also claim British citizenship .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The first child was born in the eternal ice . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 10 January 1978, p. 08 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Base Esperanza" registry office ( Memento from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), source: Argentine Armed Forces.