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  • Not sure about humans but I am certain many Emperor penguins were, and are being born in Antarctica!
  • I dont know, but that's a good question!
  • If there was someone born there, I wonder what citizenships they would have? I am guessing whatever one the parents are?
  • Interesting question. The answer is yes, several have. I found this regarding the first: "Emilio Marcos Palma made history, and the Guiness Book of World Records, in 1978 just by being born! His father was in charge of the Argentine army’s Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. As a political ploy, the government of Argentina airlifted his mother to the base to give birth. Parts of the territory in which Esperanza Base is located are claimed by Argentina, Chile, and the UK. The Guinness Book lists him as the only person identified to have been the first born on any continent. He is also the southernmost human birth known, although two other people have since been born in Antarctic territory." http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/first-child-born-in-antarctica/
  • Animals are being born. I don't think that actual humans were actually born there.
  • 1) "At least ten children have been born in West Antarctica. The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on January 7, 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. In 1984, Juan Pablo Camacho was born at the Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva Base, becoming the first Chilean born in Antarctica. Soon after, a girl, Gisella, was born at the same station. In 2001, National Geographic reported that eight children had been born at Esperanza alone." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Antarctica 2) "Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) was the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica. Emilio weighed 7½ pounds (3.4 kg) when born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the army detachment at the base. While two other people have since been born on Antarctica, Palma's birthplace remains the most southerly of anyone in history. As part of a sovereignty dispute over Argentine Antarctica, Argentina airlifted in Emilio's mother, Sílvia Morella de Palma, then seven-months pregnant. He was automatically granted Argentine citizenship by the government since his parents were both Argentine citizens, and he was born in the claimed Argentine Antarctica. Additionally, as the base also falls within the claimed British Antarctic Territory, and he was born before 1983 when British nationality by birth was automatically acquired, he could also claim British nationality. He is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the only person in history known to be the first born on a continent. However, Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen of Norway, born in the island territory of South Georgia in 1913, is sometimes claimed as the actual first Antarctica birth due to that territory being considered part of Antarctica for some purposes." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Palma Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solveig_Gunbjørg_Jacobsen

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