Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz).
His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base.
[1] While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost.
[2] The airlift was a part of the Argentine solutions to the sovereignty dispute over territory in Antarctica.
[citation needed] He is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person known to have been born on the continent.