Videos about Women Explorers

featuring members of the Society of Woman Geographers and other famous explorers

Excerpts from PBS's Unladylike 2020

Bessie Coleman, Aviator

Ynés Mexía, Botanist, Member SWG

Annie Smith Peck, Mountaineer, Member SWG

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Louise Boyd, Arctic Explorer, Member SWG

Contemporary Explorers Following in Footsteps of Famous Explorers

Michele Westmorland (SWG) following in Footsteps of Caroline Mytinger (SWG)

Arita Baaijens Following in the Footsteps of Alexandrine Tinne.

Elise Wortley Following in Footsteps of Nan Shepherd

Award-Winning Members of SWG

Jane Goodall, Primatologist, SWG

Rebecca Lee Lok-Sze, Arctic Explorer, SWG

Eugenie Clark, Marine Biologist, SWG

Amelia Earhart, Aviator, SWG

Sylvia Earle, Conservationist, Deep-Sea Diver, SWG

Freya Stark, Himalyan Explorer, SWG

Mary Leakey, Archeologist, SWG

Anna C. Roosevelt, Archeologist, SWG

Kathyrn Sullivan, Geologist, Astronaut, SWG

Arlene Blum, Mountain Climber, SWG

Marion Stirling Pugh, Archeologist, SWG

Pam Flowers, Arctic Dogsledder, SWG

Margaret Mead, Anthropologist, SWG

Marie Tharp, Ocean Cartographer, SWG

Frances Oldham Kelsey, FDA Medical  Examiner, SWG

Elizabeth C. Titus Putnam, Conservationist, SWG

Amelia Earhart, Aviator, SWG

Edith M. "Jackie" Ronne, Antarctic Explorer, SWG

Mardy Murie, Arctic Conservationist, SWG

Gloria Hollister Anable, Marine Biologist, SWG

Mary Crowley, Marine Conservationist, SWG

Janice Monk, Geographer, SWG

Louise Emmons, Ecologist, SWG

Carol A. Meyer, Archeologist, SWG

María Constanza Ceruti, High Altitude Archeologist, SWG

Susan Shaw, Marine Toxicologist, SWG

Laurie Marker, Conservation Biologist, SWG

SWG Flag Bearers

Lucille Quarry Mann, Naturalist, SWG

Mary Vaux Walcott, Botanist, SWG

Marie Peary Stafford, Artic Explorer, SWG

Women Explorer-Filmmakers

Osa Johnson, filmmaker, SWG

Marguerite Harrison, Film Producer, Soviet Spy, SWG

Marvin Breckenridge, Frontier Nurse. SWG

Founders of SWG

Harriet Chalmers Adams, First President of SWG

Blair Niles, Founder, SWG

Marguerite Harrison, Founder, SWG

Artists/Musicians/Dancers/Explorers

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Te Ata, Chickasaw Storyteller, SWG

Frances Densmore, Ethnomusicologist, SWG

Else Bostelmann, Scientific Artist, SWG

Anna Heyward Taylor, Scientific Artist, SWG

Other Women  Explorers

Rachel Carson, Conservationist, SWG

Pearl S. Buck, Author & China Expert, SWG

Alexandra David-Néel, Tibet Explorer, SWG

Delia "Mickie" Akeley, Big Game Hunter, SWG

Mae Jemison, Astronaut

Mary Ritter Beard, Historian, SWG

Helen Churchill Candee, Textiles, SWG

Ellen La Motte, Author & Nurse, SWG SWG

Dickey Chappelle, Combat Journalist, SWG

Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer, SWG

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady & World Traveler, SWG

Explorers Whose Works Have Created Controversy After Their Deaths

Laura Boulton, Ethnomusicologist, SWG

Malvina Hoffman, Scultptor, SWG

Margaret Mead, Anthropologist, SWG

Contemporary Explorers

Wasfia Nazreen, Mountain Climber

Christina Koch, Astronaut

Immogene Drummond, Artist, SWG

Ann Bancroft (SWG) & Liv Arnesen, Polar Explorers

Quill Rebecca Kukla, Philosopher, SWG

Janice Terry, Scholar, Middle East, SWG

Felicity Aston, Antarctic Skier

Karen Kohanowich, Undersea Research & Technology, SWG

Linda Gass, Artist, SWG

Tara Waters Lumpkin, Anthropologist, SWG

Gaelin Rosenwak, Marine Scientist, SWG

Pascale Marceau, Mountain Climber, SWG

Peggy Diane Rismille, Biologist & Jewelery Maker, SWG

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