Argentine citizen Emilio Palma got into the Guinness Book of Records simply for the fact of being born in an unusual place.
He was born in early 1978 in... Antarctica.
In the following decades, 10 more people were born here.
However, Palma remains the record holder. Firstly, he was the first to be born on the Antarctic continent.
Secondly, he remains a man born at the southernmost point.
Emilio Palma: Biography
In late 1977, a pregnant Argentine citizen, María Silvia de Palma, was taken to the Argentine-owned Antarctic station Esperanza.
It was at this point on January 7, 1978 that the woman gave birth to a son.
The boy automatically received Argentine citizenship, since his mother and father had similar citizenship.
By the way, the father of the Argentine record-holder is Jorge Emilio Palma, who led the Argentine Armed Forces detachment at the station.
As for the native of Antarctica himself, he is currently a specialist in the field of computer science.
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