# Has there ever been a human birth in Antarctica?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-human-birth-in-antarctica/704691 "2014-11-15T14:04:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-human-birth-in-antarctica/704691/1 "2014-11-15T14:04:36Z")

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There’s a Thread in MPISMS asking which Doper lives the farthest from any other people.  
Before even opening the Thread, I thought I was pretty sure that we have or had someone who posted from Antarctica. Sure enough this was already mentioned by a few posters who made it to the Thread before me (though, none of them could remember who it was either).

What inspired my question here:  
One of the posters in the Thread referred to this mystery Doper as “Antarctican”.

Now I don’t know if doing time in a research station in Antarctica qualifies a person to identify as Antarctican, but it got me wondering if there are or ever have been any native born Antarcticans.

Has there ever been a human birth in Antarctica?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-human-birth-in-antarctica/704691/2 "2014-11-15T14:26:05Z")

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[Emilio Palma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Palma) was the first, an Argentine by nationality,