#OnThisDay, 20 Feb 1935, Danish-Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen sets foot on Antarctica. She was the first woman documented to have landed on the continent when she stepped onto the Tryne Islands. Mount Caroline Mikkelsen is named after her.

Ingrid Christensen stepped foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937.

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