Category
page 1British women explorers
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)

Mary Kingsley
British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)

Isabella Bird
British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)
Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993)

Ellen MacArthur
long-distance yachtswoman
Florence Baker
explorer
Kate Marsden
British nurse (1859–1931)
Jane Franklin
British explorer and philanthropist (1791–1875)
Anne Blunt
British musician and horse breeder (1837–1917)
Lucy Walker
English climber (1836-1916)
Rosita Forbes
British writer and explorer
Samantha Davies
British yacht racer
Felicity Aston
British adventurer/climate scientist
Vanessa O'Brien
American mountaineer (born 1964)
Mabel Bent
Anglo-Irish explorer, excavator, writer and photographer (1847-1929)

Jane Francis
British paleoclimatologist
Preet Chandi
British army officer who became the first woman of colour to complete a solo expedition to reach the South Pole
Evelyn Cheesman
British entomologist and botanical collector (1881-1969)
Zainab Cobbold
British Muslim aristocrat
Lucy Atkinson
traveller and writer, wife of Thomas Wiltlam Atkinson (1817-1893)