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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 71,787 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Louise Arner Boyd is the 353rd most popular explorer (down from 322nd in 2019), the 5,960th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,202nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 353 out of 405. Before her are Clements Markham, Henri Duveyrier, Ivan Moskvitin, Edward Belcher, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, and Dirk Hartog. After her are Alexander Fersman, Gaspar de Portolá, George Kennan, Vasily Chichagov, Sámuel Teleki, and Étienne Brûlé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 183. Before her are Georges Vézina, Yuri Shaporin, Thoralf Skolem, Boris Kostić, Igor Severyanin, and Sigrid Fick. After her are Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Gregorio Marañón, Alf Landon, Kalle Anttila, Adriaan Fokker, and Jamini Roy. Among people deceased in 1972, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 158. Before her are Mitchell Leisen, Brandon deWilde, Gustav Wiederkehr, Romas Kalanta, Harold Rainsford Stark, and Prithviraj Kapoor. After her are Ntare V of Burundi, Vera Karalli, Edmund Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Carlo Agostoni, and Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 5,960 out of 18,182. Before her are Walt Frazier (1945), Michael J. Pollard (1939), Billy Gilbert (1894), Margaret Dumont (1882), Ron Ely (1938), and Lon Chaney Jr. (1906). After her are Phoebe Cates (1963), Edward Burns (1968), Alan Freed (1921), Alex Katz (1927), Koko Taylor (1928), and Robert Blust (1940).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Louise Arner Boyd ranks 26. Before her are John C. Frémont (1813), Charles Wilkes (1798), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), Benjamin Morrell (1795), and John Wesley Powell (1834). After her are George Kennan (1845), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), John Colter (1774), Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), Elisha Kent Kane (1820), and Wiley Post (1898).

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