LOUISE ARNER BOYD
WOMAN EXPLORER
WOMAN EXPLORER
Louise ARNER BOYD was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic who was born in 1887 in the State of California.
She wrote extensively of her explorations and she was also the first woman to fly over the North pole privately with a DC-4 plane.
Since she came from a wealthy family she didn't have problems to finance her trips.
In 1918 she worked as a nurse during the Influenza Epidemic in Egypt and Europe.
After her parents' dead in 1919 and 1920 her interest on the Arctic began and she travelled again to Europe. Soon later she went on a trip to the Arctic.
As soon as she returned from the Arctic she started another trip where she had to look for a man called Umberto Nobile and another explorer that went before Boyd, Amunsden, to find Nobile. Unfortunately Amunsden was never found but, nevertheless, she was presented with a medal by the King of Norway.
In 1934 she was elected as Delegate in the International Geographic Center in Warsaw, Poland.
With the outbreak of WWII her knoweldge of the Arctic and Greenland zone became of strategic significance, so eventhough they didnt let her publish a book, she worked on secret assignments for the US government.
In 1949 she was awarded with the Department of Army Certificate Appreciaton.
Louise had a life full of adventures.
She died in 1972, but she will never be forgotten. Her soul will always be with us on her books and quotes.
