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This list of women explorers and travelers documents significant female figures in the history of exploration and travel, who were either active explorers, members of expeditions, or by circumstance among the first of their respective cultures to travel a new path or destination.

Africa

 * Legendary: Dido (Queen of Carthage)
 * Mary Kingsley
 * Jean Dybowski
 * May French Sheldon
 * Alexandrine Tinné
 * Primatologists (Leakey's Angels): Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birutė Galdikas (last in Asia)
 * Rosita Forbes
 * Isabelle Eberhardt
 * Ina Kullo Ozoro (accompanied László Magyar)

Americas

 * Sacagawea
 * Mary Campbell (colonial settler)
 * Marie-Anne Gaboury
 * Amanda Smith
 * Phyllis Munday
 * Harriet Chalmers Adams

Asia

 * Legendary: Hagar, Queen of Sheba
 * Roxana
 * Tibet: Alexandra David-Néel, Susanna Carson Rijnhart, Annie Royle Taylor
 * Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth
 * Gertrude Bell
 * Jane Dieulafoy
 * Freya Stark
 * Isabella Bird
 * Florence Baker (accompanied Samuel Baker)
 * Janet Elliott Wulsin
 * Fanny Bullock Workman
 * Brooke Dolan II
 * Su-Lin Young

Europe

 * Legendary: Medea, Morgan Le Fay
 * Pocohantas
 * Catharine Hermine Kølle
 * Guðríður Símonardóttir
 * Sarah Baartman

Oceania

 * Margaret Mead
 * Dona Isabel (accompanied Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira)
 * Jane Franklin

Polar regions

 * Edith Ronne
 * Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition
 * Ada Blackjack
 * Josephine Diebitsch Peary

Circumnavigators

 * Aviators: Amelia Earhart
 * Around the Worlders: Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland
 * Eleanor Creesy

Space

 * Astronauts: Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, Shannon Lucid, Eileen Collins, Anousheh Ansari, Helen Sharman, Yi So-Yeon
 * Ground-based researchers: Jill Tarter, Donna Shirley

Seas

 * Aquanaut: Sylvia Earle

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