Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972

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Dates:
Birth 1887-09-16
Death 1972-09-14
Americans

Biographical notes:

Louise Arner Boyd (b. September 16, 1887, San Rafael, California-d. September 14, 1972, San Francisco, California) was a geographer, big game hunter, patroness of the arts, and leader of eight expeditions into polar regions, including several to Greenland. In 1955 she flew over the North Pole to take photographs for the American Geographical Society.

She held honorary degrees from the Universities of Alaska and California and from Mills College.

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Subjects:

  • Ships
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Ice
  • Muskox
  • Natural history
  • Polar bear
  • Polar bear hunting
  • Sami (European people)
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Scientists
  • Sealing
  • Seals (Animals)

Occupations:

  • Women explorers

Places:

  • Arctic regions (as recorded)
  • Arctic Ocean (as recorded)
  • Franz Josef Land (Russia) (as recorded)
  • Sweden (as recorded)
  • Spitsbergen Island (Norway) (as recorded)
  • Greenland (as recorded)

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