Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen

Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996)[1] was a Norwegian who was the first person born and raised south of the Antarctic Convergence, in Grytviken, South Georgia in 1913.

Solveig's birth was registered by the resident British Stipendiary Magistrate of South Georgia, James Wilson.

The first human born south of the Convergence was the Australian James Kerguelen Robinson, born in Kerguelen Islands on 11 March 1859.

The first person born in the Antarctic Treaty area (also first on the Antarctic mainland) was Emilio Palma, born at the Argentine Esperanza Base in 1978.

She died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 83, and was buried in Molde, Norway.