Solveig Gunbjrg Jacobsen (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Solveig Gunbjrg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 - 25 October 1996) was the first person born in the Antarctic region, in Grytviken. 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. She died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buried in Molde, Norway.