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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz

1936 - 2021

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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (15 July 1936 – 13 June 2021) was a Polish naval engineer and sailor as well as the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz has received more than 45,636 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz is the 450th most popular explorer (down from 374th in 2019), the 1,117th most popular biography from Poland (down from 916th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 450 out of 498Before her are Matthew Henson, Ernest Henry Wilson, Frank Wild, Gombojab Tsybikov, Johann Ludwig Krapf, and John Moresby. After her are Charles Sturt, Robert O'Hara Burke, Edgar Evans, Jacques Bernard Hombron, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, and John Rae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 453Before her are Teatao Teannaki, Clive Swift, Larry McMurtry, Rubén Héctor Sosa, Ben Pon, and Žarko Nikolić. After her are Barbara Sobotta, David Hess, Nikolay Rubtsov, John Madden, David Jenkins, and Kjell Grede. Among people deceased in 2021, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 487Before her are Mary Wilson, Romano Fogli, Giovanni Zucchi, Dani Shmulevich-Rom, Théoneste Bagosora, and Franco Marini. After her are Yoo Sang-chul, Antal Kiss, Olha Ilkiv, Walter Graf, Paddy Moloney, and Giacomo Capuzzi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 1,117 out of 1,694Before her are Lina Morgenstern (1830), Henryk Grossman (1881), Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Irena Kwiatkowska (1912), Adam Małysz (1977), and Krzysztof Warzycha (1964). After her are Harry Winter (1914), Christoph Hein (1944), Joachim Marx (1944), Anna Louisa Karsch (1722), Barbara Sobotta (1936), and Stanisław Barańczak (1946).

Among EXPLORERS In Poland

Among explorers born in Poland, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 6Before her are Emin Pasha (1840), Paweł Strzelecki (1797), Otto Finsch (1839), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), and Theodor Kotschy (1813). After her are Marek Kamiński (1964).