Louise Arner Boyd
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 52 years ago |
Date of birth | September 16,1887 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | San Rafael |
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United States | |
Date of died | September 14,1972 |
Died | San Francisco |
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United States | |
Known for | First woman to fly over the North Pole |
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Books | The Coast of Northeast Greenland: With Hydrographic Studies in the Greenland Sea |
Job | Explorer |
Awards | Cullum Geographical Medal |
Nationality | American |
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ID | 586237 |
Louise Arner Boyd Life story
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions, and 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.