Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen (born 8 October 1913) was the first person born south of the Antarctic Convergence. Her father Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874-1953) settled in South Georgia in 1904 to become assistant manager, and from 1914 to 1921 manager of the Grytviken whaling station. Jacobsen and his wife Klara Olette Jacobsen had two of their children born on the island. The birth was registered by the resident British Stipendiary Magistrate of South Georgia, James Wilson.
See also
- History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Emilio Palma — the first person born on mainland Antarctica (in 1978)
References
- Robert K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
