When did the first woman visit Scott Base?
The first New Zealand female visitor to Antarctica was Marie Darby (a zoologist from Canterbury Museum) in 1968. However, Scott Base’s first official female resident was technician Pamela Young, who worked at the base during the summer of 1969-70. She assisted her husband Dr Ewan Young in studies of skuas at Cape Bird and later wrote a book on her experiences, entitled Penguin Summer. |