Louise Arner Boyd
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. Department of the Army.
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