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List of women explorers and travelers. English writer Gertrude Bell in Iraq, 1909. Belgian Berthe Cabra. Japanese climber Junko Tabei. Hungarian geographer Béláné Mocsáry. Canadian-born Aloha Wanderwell. The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up ...
Explorer, teacher, author, public speaker. Known for. First woman to trek to the North Pole. Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955) is an American author, teacher, adventurer, and public speaker. She was the first woman to finish a number of expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
Ursula B. Marvin in Antarctica, 1978–1979. The first two U.S. woman to winter at a U.S. Antarctic research station were Mary Alice McWhinnie and. Mary Odile Cahoon. Mary Alice was the station science leader (chief scientist) at McMurdo Station in 1974 [ 60] and Mary Odile was a nun and biologist. [ 56]
Isabella Bird. Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS ( née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. [ 4] She was also the first woman to be elected as ...
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
Travels and writings on West Africa. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, writer and explorer who made numerous travels through West Africa and wrote several books on her experiences there. Historians have credited Kingsley's work with helping to shape Western perceptions of the culture of ...
Harriet Chalmers Adams (October 22, 1875 – July 17, 1937 [ 1]) was an American explorer, writer and photographer. She traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in National Geographic magazine. She lectured frequently on her travels and illustrated her ...