Aloha Wanderwell
Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, travel lecturer, editor, screenwriter, and radio performer. She was also fluent in 11 languages.
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Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Hester Stanhope
English traveler and writer
Isabella Bird
English travelor and author
Harriet Chalmers Adams
American explorer, war correspondent and lecturer
Mina Benson Hubbard
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mina A. Ellis, a Canadian explorer and author, born at Bewdly, Ontario, and graduated at the Brooklyn, N,Y. Training School for Nurses. She became superintendent of the Virginia Hospital, Richmond, Va., and in 1901 married Leonidas Hubbard, a journalist and explorer who perished in Labrador in 1903.
After his death she organized an expedition which in 1905 successfully crossed the northeastern part of the Labrador Peninsula with the object of completing Hubbard’s work. She made many interesting discoveries, and was the first white person to cross the Great Divide between the Naskaupi and George Rivers. On returning to the United States she gave an account of her journey to the American Geographical Society, and in 1908 published A Woman’s Way through Unknown Labrador.
Alexandrine Tinné
Dutch traveler who explored Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
English traveller, ethnologist and author
Ada Blackjack
The lone survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, this Iñupiat woman survived for two years on Wrangel Island, remote arctic island north of Siberia.
Lillemor Rachlew
Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named. On an earlier voyage to Antarctica Rachlew took photographs, whichwere published in 1934. Sections from her diary were preserved, the earliest examples of a woman’s writing about her travels in Antarctica.