Who is the first person born in Antarctica in 1978 ?

The first person born in Antarctica is an Argentine national born on January 7, 1978. The first person who is born and known as the first human on the continent of Antarctica. He weighed 7½ pounds (3.4 kg) when born in Fortin Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. While ten other people have since been born on Antarctica, his birthplace remains the most southerly of anyone in history.

Answer: Emilio Palma

Emilio Marcos Palma father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine army detachment at the base. As part of a sovereignty dispute over Argentine Antarctica, Argentina airlifted in Emilio’s mother, Sílvia Morella de Palma, then seven months pregnant. Emilio Palma was automatically granted Argentine citizenship by the government since his parents were both Argentine citizens, and he was born in the claimed Argentine Antarctica.

Additionally, as the base also falls within the claimed British Antarctic Territory, and he was born before 1983 when British nationality by birth was automatically acquired, Emilio Palma could also claim British nationality.

Emilio Palma is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person in history known to be born on the continent. However, Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen of Norway, born in the island territory of South Georgia in 1913, is sometimes claimed as the actual first Antarctica birth due to that territory being considered part of Antarctica for some purposes.