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Emilio Marcos Des Palma Morella (born 7 January 1978) is an Argentine man who was the first documented person born on the continent of
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Biography

Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the
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, near the tip of the
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, and weighed . His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the
Argentine Army The Argentine Army ( es, Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina. Under the Argentine Constitution, the president of Argentina is the commander- ...
detachment at the base. While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost. In late 1977, Silvia Morella de Palma, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to
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, 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
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, although this claim is not internationally recognised and overlaps with British and Chilean claims. He is featured in the ''
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'' as the first person known to have been born on the continent.


Other births in Antarctica

Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996)Gravminner i Norge.
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of
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, born in the island territory of
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on 8 October 1913, was the first person born and raised in the
Antarctic The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...
(the world region south of the Antarctic Convergence).Gravminner i Norge
DISNorge.no; retrieved 14 June 2012.
The first human born in the wider Antarctic region was the Australian
James Kerguelen Robinson James Kerguelen Robinson (11 March 1859 – 1914) was an Australian prospector who was the first person born south of the Antarctic Convergence. Robinson Pass was named after him. Life Robinson was born in March 1859 on the Kerguelen Islands ...
, born in the
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on 11 March 1859.J. Robinson
Appendix B: Log of the Offley.
In: ''Reminiscences''. Hobart: Archives Office of Tasmania, 1906. pp. 98-99. (Transcribed and edited by D. Cerchi.)


See also

* Demographics of Antarctica *
Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996)Gravminner i Norge.
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1978 births Living people People from Argentine Antarctica {{Antarctica-stub