These women
have helped
pave the
way for new
generations
of National
Geographic
explorers.
Asha de Vos
BIOLOGIST
Maria Mitchell
ASTRONOMER
Electa ‘Exy’ Johnson
SAILOR
Ella Al-Shamahi
PALEOANTHROPOLOGIST
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
AVIATOR
Marion Stirling Pugh
ARCHAEOLOGIST
Jocelyn Crane Griffin
CARCINOLOGIST
Gloria Hollister Anable
ICHTHYOLOGIST
Else Bostelmann
ARTIST
Dickey Chapelle
PHOTOGRAPHER
Evgenia Arbugaeva
PHOTOGRAPHER
Barbara Washburn
CARTOGRAPHER
Reina Torres de Araúz
ANTHROPOLOGIST
Marie Tharp
GEOLOGIST
Munazza Alam
ASTROPHYSICIST
Rae Wynn-Grant
ECOLOGIST
Jess Cramp
CONSERVATIONIST
Biruté Galdikas
PRIMATOLOGIST
Harriet Chalmers Adams
EXPLORER
Liliana Gutiérrez Mariscal
BIOLOGIST
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