'Deadweight at best': Discover the inspiring voices of women explorers
Posted: Jan 01, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: January 1 Latonia Hartery, seen on Ellesmere Island surveying archeological sites at Alexandra Fjord, presents a new CBC Radio documentary on women who explored Canada's North. (Daniel J Catt) Even though many of us would consider Amelia Earhart an explorer, she was never accepted into the famed, New York-based Explorers Club, which banned women until 1981. What about archeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, who excavated the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland? Her history-changing accomplishment is often attributed solely to h...
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