New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
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Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982
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Jean Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua, New Zealand. She and her mother moved from New Zealand to Britain in 1930 where Batten immediately pursued her ambition of learning to fly. In 1934, she flew solo from England to Australia in 14 days, 22½ hours, shattering Amy Johnson’s record by four days and becoming a world celebrity. She became the first woman to make the return journey to England and followed that up with a world record flight from England to Brazil, at the same time bec...
