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Date: 2 January 2012: Source: Own work.This file was derived from: Front view of a woman.jpg Author: Taken at City Studios in Stockholm (www.stockholmsfotografen.se), September 29, 2011, with assistance from KYO (The organisation of life models) in Stockholm.
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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.
Leader of the first all-female expedition to the South Pole in 1992–1993. [5] Included in Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century in 1998. [5] Second woman (after Liv Arnesen) to cross Antarctica on foot in 2001. Named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine in 2001. [5] Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame for the United States ...
Fanny Bullock Workman (January 8, 1859 – January 22, 1925) was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She was one of the first female professional mountaineers; she not only explored but also wrote about her adventures.
Elise Wortley (born 1989 or 1990) is a British explorer who uses equipment and clothing from the early 1900s for her journeys. [2] [3]Wortley grew up in Colchester, Essex [4] before moving to London in 2017.
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Sarah Marquis (born June 20, 1972) is a Swiss adventurer and explorer. From 2010 to 2013, she walked 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) alone from Siberia to the Gobi Desert, into China, Laos, Thailand, and then across Australia.