# kidlit picturebooks librarians teachers pbbios womenshistory otd

"Isabella sailed away. Away from England. Away from family. And away from what a young Englishwoman could and couldn't do."

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2021-10-23

On this day in 1935, Danish-Norwegian explorer Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica, on an island. Norwegian Ingrid Christensen is the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, a year later. https://t.co/ugg1hFcZn4

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2018-02-20