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The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders, swimmers, pilots, and underwater explorers. Astronauts are not included here but in the list of women astronauts.
It includes explorers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Female explorers (3 C, 90 P) T. Female touring cyclists (1 C, 5 P) W. Women travel writers (4 C, 96 P) Pages in category "Female travelers" The following 44 pages are ...
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Bancroft was born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, [2] and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. [3] Bancroft spent two years in Kenya in her fifth and sixth grades. [2] Bancroft began leading wilderness expeditions when she was 8 years old when she convinced her cousins to join her on backyard expeditions. [2]
Faanya on the "Great Elephant Quest" in Bardia, Nepal, 1994 Faanya Rose by explorer Robert Hyman. Base Camp, Mount Everest, 1999 Base Camp, Mount Everest, 1999 In her twenties, Faanya was a civilian observer of Operation Noah (1958–1964), the world's largest wildlife rescue from the flooding of the Kariba Gorge by the completion of the Kariba ...
This was the first spaceflight of Blue Origin involving two female crew members, and Vanessa O'Brien carried the UN Women's flag. [23] She became the first woman to complete the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta – reaching extremes on land, sea, and air after she passed the Kármán line as part of Blue Origin NS-22 spaceflight. [23]
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).