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. Provided by Wikipedia
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The fiord region of east Greenland
New York, N.Y. : American Geographical Society, 1935Format: Book
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The coast of northeast Greenland : with hydrographic studies in the Greenland Sea. The Louise A. Boyd Arctic expeditions of 1937 and 1938
New York : American Geographical Society, 1948Format: Book
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