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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Arner Boyd has received more than 76,183 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Louise Arner Boyd is the 328th most popular explorer (up from 352nd in 2019), the 4,843rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,948th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 328 out of 498. Before her are Pedro Tafur, William Clark, Bento de Góis, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Alexander Dalrymple, and Grímur Kamban. After her are Friedrich Welwitsch, Louis de Freycinet, Pyotr Beketov, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, John C. Frémont, and Félix de Azara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 174. Before her are Sam Warner, Thoralf Skolem, Louis Leon Thurstone, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Joseph Orbeli, and Rupert Brooke. After her are Marianne Moore, Sylvia Beach, Leevi Madetoja, Pierre Jean Jouve, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, and Albert Gutterson. Among people deceased in 1972, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 135. Before her are Lee Beom-seok, Alfons Gorbach, Günter Eich, Miriam Hopkins, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Deniz Gezmiş. After her are Jinichi Kusaka, Antal Szabó, Abeid Karume, Gottfried Fuchs, Marianne Moore, and Louis J. Mordell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 4,843 out of 20,380. Before her are Oliver North (1943), Rafer Johnson (1935), Josephine Hull (1877), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), Dennis Dugan (1946), and Gloria Vanderbilt (1924). After her are Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Theodore Maiman (1927), John G. Trump (1907), Johnny Nash (1940), Levon Helm (1940), and Justin Theroux (1971).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 25. Before her are Meriwether Lewis (1774), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Chris McCandless (1968), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), and William Clark (1770). After her are John C. Frémont (1813), John Wesley Powell (1834), George Kennan (1845), Benjamin Morrell (1795), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), and John Colter (1774).

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