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Louise Arner Boyd

1887 - 1972

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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. During World War II, Boyd led a scientific expedition to obtain data on radio-wave transmission in the Arctic regions and worked on secret assignments for the U.S. Department of the Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louise Arner Boyd is the 242nd most popular explorer (up from 328th in 2019), the 3,669th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,843rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 242 out of 498. Before her are André Thevet, Lincoln Ellsworth, Helge Ingstad, Ma Huan, Olivier van Noort, and Jimmie Angel. After her are Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Vladimir Atlasov, Nikolaus Federmann, St John Philby, Yerofey Khabarov, and Dmitry Laptev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 109. Before her are Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Samuil Marshak, Josef Frings, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Alvin Hansen, and Walter Ruttmann. After her are Norman L. Bowen, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, James Finlayson, Frigyes Karinthy, Andrei Shkuro, and Hector Hodler. Among people deceased in 1972, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 97. Before her are Carl W. Stalling, Ivan Yefremov, James F. Byrnes, C. W. Ceram, Ernst von Salomon, and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen. After her are Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Vladimir Durković, Mohamed Oufkir, Violette Leduc, Frank Knight, and Edward Calvin Kendall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 3,669 out of 20,380. Before her are Ronnie Van Zant (1948), Charlie Ruggles (1886), Mary-Louise Parker (1964), Harris Yulin (1937), Lauren Graham (1967), and Bruce Nauman (1941). After her are Emmylou Harris (1947), Frank Welker (1946), Bill Walker (1951), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Gilbert Stuart (1755), and Albert Ghiorso (1915).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 16. Before her are Frederick Cook (1865), George W. De Long (1844), Simon Fraser (1776), Don Walsh (1931), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), and Jimmie Angel (1899). After her are Ada Blackjack (1898), Jedediah Smith (1799), Charles Wilkes (1798), Jim Bridger (1804), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), and John C. Frémont (1813).

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