Explorer Archives - Infinite Women

Isabelle Eberhardt

Swiss explorer who lived and travelled extensively throughout North Africa.

Helen Thayer was the first woman and oldest person to make a solo journey to the magnetic North Pole. She competed internationally as a world-class discus thrower, and in 1975 became the U.S. National Champion in the ice-sledding sport luge.

Aloha Wanderwell

Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, travel lecturer, editor, screenwriter, and radio performer. She was also fluent in 11 languages.

Jeanne Baret

French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world

Hester Stanhope

English traveler and writer

Isabella Bird

English travelor and author

Harriet Chalmers Adams

American explorer, war correspondent and lecturer

Mina Benson Hubbard

From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mina A. Ellis, a Canadian explorer and author, born at Bewdly, Ontario, and graduated at the Brooklyn, N,Y. Training School for Nurses. She became superintendent of the Virginia Hospital, Richmond, Va., and in 1901 married Leonidas Hubbard, a journalist and explorer who perished in Labrador in 1903.
After his death she organized an expedition which in 1905 successfully crossed the northeastern part of the Labrador Peninsula with the object of completing Hubbard’s work. She made many interesting discoveries, and was the first white person to cross the Great Divide between the Naskaupi and George Rivers. On returning to the United States she gave an account of her journey to the American Geographical Society, and in 1908 published A Woman’s Way through Unknown Labrador.

Alexandrine Tinné

Dutch traveler who explored Africa

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

English traveller, ethnologist and author