Fun Fact of the Day

DID YOU KNOW?
The Greenland shark is one of the largest sharks in the world and is the largest arctic fish

Today’s Activity

Louise Arner Boyd – An American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic

Today for Terrific Exploration Thursday we are going to learn a little about another explorer of Greenland, Louise Arner Boyd. In 1931-1938, Louise Arner Boyd lead a series of scientific  expeditions on both the east and north-east coasts of Greenland. In 1933, the American Geographical Society sent Louise and her team back to Greenland to study glaciers, fjords and seas nearby. She then later wrote a book about her 1933 expedition called The Fjord Region of East Greenland. Because of all her explorations in Greenland, an area that was near De Geer Glacier was named after her as Louise Boyd Land!
Louise became known all around the world for her explorations and was known in the newspapers as the “Arctic Diana” and “The Girl Who Tamed the Arctic”.  Another thing that Louise was greatly known for was being the first woman to fly over the North Pole privately in a DC-4 plane in 1955!