Emilio Palma

Emilio Marcos Palma ( born January 7, 1978 in Esperanza Station, Antarctic Peninsula ) is the first known person who was born on the Antarctic mainland. In addition, he was born on the south than any other person and thus further south than the South Georgian born Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen ( 1913-1996 ).

As the son of Argentine parents Palma was born in Fortin Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza station near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. He was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records, this. Was the only man of whom it is known that he was born as the first in a continent

Because his parents were Argentine citizen and he was born in an Argentine station on beanspruchtem territory of Argentina, he immediately received the Argentine citizenship. Moreover, the base falls into British -claimed territory, and since before 1983 the British nationality was automatically conferred by birth, he could also claim British citizenship.

• Record holder
• History ( Antarctica )
• Argentine
• Born in 1978
• Man