NORDAUSLANDET
courtesy duncan payne
SPITSBERGEN
The Hobby’s route during the search for Roald Amundsen and his flight crew. Boydfjellet—a mountain in Orvin Land at Nordauslandet—was named after Louise Boyd in recognition of her efforts in the 1928 rescue mission. Joanna Kafarowski, PhD, is the author of the first comprehensive biography of a female Arctic explorer, The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd, published in 2017 by Dundurn Press. In July 2021, Blackstone Publishing released it as an audiobook. Dr. Kafarowski is an independent scholar, geographer, and polar specialist with two decades of experience working in the Arctic region. Her next book, Antarctic Pioneer: The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne, is the first biography of a female Antarctic explorer and will be published in May 2022 by Dundurn Press. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Geographers, a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, and is the editor of Gender, Culture and Northern Fisheries (Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 2009). For more information, see www.joannakafarowski.com. SEA HISTORY 177, WINTER 2021–22
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