Emilio Marcos de Palma Morella (born 7 January 1978) is an Argentine man who was the first person born on the continent Antarctica. The first person to be conceived in the continent was Juan Pablo Camacho.
Palma was born in FortÃÂn Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed . His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base.
In late 1977, Silvia Morella de Palma, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to Esperanza Base, in order to complete her pregnancy in the base. Emilio Palma was born in 7 January 1978 and baptized at the Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi on the base.
He is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person born on the continent.
Since the area in which Emilio Palma was born is also part of the British Antarctic Territory (BAT), he holds British citizenship as well as Argentine. Full British citizenship was available to a person born in the territory before 1983. Since 1983, any person born in a British Overseas Territory would only have British Overseas Territories citizenship (BOTC) available to them.