Female polar explorers

Japanese mountain climber (1939-2016)

American explorer

Iñupiat explorer (1898–1983)

Marine geologist (1898–1976)

American explorer, botanist and photographer (1887-1972)

Russian explorer

Danish-Norwegian explorer (1906-1998)

Norwegian cross-country skier

Spanish women scientist, biologist, oceanographer and writer

Norwegian adventurer, extreme mountaineer and television personality

Swedish glaciologist and geologist

American explorer (1919–2009)

Norwegian explorer

Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist (1889-1982)

explorer

Arnarulunnguaq ( ; 1896 – 2 October 1933), a Native Greenlander, was a key member of Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–1924) which crossed the Northwest Passage by dog sled. She was one of the two who accompanied Rasmussen from the Hudson Bay to Alaska, preparing meals and keeping skins and furs in order throughout the two-year journey. As a result, she was the first woman to complete the long Arctic journey from Greenland to the Pacific.

Pakistani astronaut and explorer

American adventurer (1931-2019)

British adventurer/climate scientist

thumb|Taqulittuq in the United States Taqulittuq (, often transliterated as Tookoolito;  – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the Polaris expedition to reach the North Pole.

Japanese actress

Bruneian explorer

Danish photographer

polar explorer

American photographer and polar explorer

American mountaineer (born 1964)

Indian explorer

British army officer who became the first woman of colour to complete a solo expedition to reach the South Pole

Polar researcher, author

British paleoclimatologist

New Zealand explorer

Canadian prospector

Russian polar researcher and skier (1937–2010)

Danish geophysicist and glaciologist

American explorer

Irish mountain climber

American physician (1952-2009)