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Ada Blackjack

The lone survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, this Iñupiat woman survived for two years on Wrangel Island, remote arctic island north of Siberia.

Lillemor Rachlew

Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named.

Though Caroline Mikkelsen was the first woman to set foot in Antarctica, Ingrid Christensen was the first to do so on the continent itself (Mikkelsen had reached one of the contentent’s islands, not the mainland).