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The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include
The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...
, sailors
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, mountain climbers, dog sledders, swimmers
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, pilots
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, and underwater explorers. Astronauts are not included here but in the list of women astronauts
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, ve ...
.
See also
*Age of Discovery
The Age of Discovery (), also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the 15th to the 17th century, during which Seamanship, seafarers fro ...
* Exploration
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some Expectation (epistemic), expectation of Discovery (observation), discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organis ...
* List of Antarctic women
* List of explorations
* List of explorers
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* List of lost expeditions
* List of travelers
This is a list of people noteworthy for their travels or explorations. Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means ...
* List of women astronauts
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, ve ...
* Women in space
Women have flown and worked in outer space since almost the beginning of human spaceflight. A number of women from a range of countries have worked in space, though overall women are still significantly less often chosen to go to space than ...
References
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Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organisms capable of directed locomotion and the abilit ...