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First woman to cross Atlantic Ocean alone

American Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) was the first woman to fly on her own (solo) across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.

She disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island while trying to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. - Whitaker's World of Facts, Russell Ash

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