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Until 1969 American women were not allowed to travel to Antarctica. The US Navy was the only means of getting there and they prohibited women from making the journey. After the ban was lifted, Terry Tickhill Terrell became one of the first female American scientists to do research on Antarctica. (Image: Terry Tickhill Terrell, then 19, swings at a boulder for rock samples in Antarctica’s Wright Valley in 1969. Credit: Lois M. Jones Papers, SPEC.PA.56.0213, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program/The Ohio State University.)