The curious incident of the missing cleaner
ABSTRACT The first woman to work as a professional scientist in Antarctica was Mariya Vasilyevna Klyonova, during the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1955–1957. Other women were crew members on the icebreakers Lena and Ob’ . There is an outside possibility that there was more to one of them tha...
Published in: | Polar Record |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2009
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247409008614 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247409008614 |
Summary: | ABSTRACT The first woman to work as a professional scientist in Antarctica was Mariya Vasilyevna Klyonova, during the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1955–1957. Other women were crew members on the icebreakers Lena and Ob’ . There is an outside possibility that there was more to one of them than meets the eye. But we shall never know. |
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