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  2. List of women explorers and travelers - Wikipedia

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    First woman to circumnavigate the world by automobile Rosie Swale-Pope: Swiss, Irish, and British 1946: Has run, walked and sailed around the world Junko Tabei: Japanese 1939: 2016: First woman to reach summit of Mount Everest Annie Edson Taylor: American 1838: 1921: First person to survive a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel Gudrid ...

  3. List of islands created since the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    The island has been re-separated after most of the mass of Hunga Ha'apai was destroyed during the massive 2022 eruption. On September 24, 2013 a new island named Zalzala Koh emerged off the coast of Gwadar, as a result of a strong earthquake that hit south and southwest Pakistan measuring 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. [4]

  4. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    The current station, Olonkinbyen, has been continuously inhabited since 1958. [138] Indian Ocean: Kerguelen Islands: 1927: Port-Couvreux: After occasional sojourns and shipwrecks in the 19th century, three families settled in a sheep-farming colony but were evacuated in 1934. Scientific station at Port-aux-Français has been continuously ...

  5. List of elected and appointed female heads of state and ...

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    The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.

  6. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Hilbert's tenth problem has been solved, and it has a negative answer: such a general algorithm does not exist. This is the result of combined work of Martin Davis, Yuri Matiyasevich, Hilary Putnam and Julia Robinson which spans 21 years, with Yuri Matiyasevich completing the theorem in 1970. [68]

  7. Women in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    A woman working at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Field Camp in 2012.. Women have been exploring the regions around Antarctica for many centuries. The most celebrated "first" for women in Antarctica was in 1935 when Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot on one of Antarctica's islands. [1]

  8. Geographical exploration - Wikipedia

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    The Cook Islands are in direct line along the migration path and may have been an intermediate stopping point. There are cultural and language similarities between Cook Islanders and New Zealand Māori. Early Māori had different legends of their origins, but the stories were misunderstood and reinterpreted in confused written accounts by early ...

  9. History of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The island was inhabited, though many of the people fled the Spanish landing. The Spaniards found some women and children hiding in the island's vegetation and gave them gifts. Before leaving the islands on January 6, 1543, Villalobos sighted islands that may have included Wotje, Erikub, Maloelap, Likiep, Kwajalein, Lae, Ujae, Wotho or Ujelang ...