Emilio Marcos Palma is an Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica. He was born in Fort�n Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and weighed 7 lb 8 oz. His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine army detachment at the base. While ten people have been born on Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the most southerly. In late 1977, Silvia Morella de Palma, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to Esperanza Base, in order to complete her pregnancy in the base. The airlift was a part of the Argentine solutions to the sovereignty dispute over territory in Antarctica. Emilio was automatically granted Argentine citizenship by the government since his parents were both Argentine citizens, and he was born in the claimed Argentine Antarctica. This is a sector of Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory, although this claim is not internationally recognised and overlaps with British and Chilean claims. [More at Wikipedia]

January 7th, 1978 in Esperanza Base  /  Died:   Apr 8th, 2020 - aged 93