Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox person
Emilio Marcos de Palma Morella (born 7 January 1978) is an Argentine man who was the first person born on the continent of Antarctica.
BiographyEdit
Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed Template:Convert. His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost.
In late 1977, Silvia Morella de Palma, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to Esperanza Base, in order to complete her pregnancy in the base.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> The airlift was a part of the Argentine solutions to the sovereignty dispute over territory in Antarctica. Emilio was automatically granted Argentine citizenship by the government since his parents were both Argentine citizens, and he was born in the claimed Argentine Antarctica. This is a sector of Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory.
He is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person born on the continent.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>