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In 1987, Arti Pradhan became the youngest female swimmer to swim the English Channel. I can't find any reference to her having swum across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the alantic ocean.
Iris Cross is the woman in one of the first BP commercials.
Amelia Airhart, in a areoplane!
Amelia Earhart
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Mary Dohey of Newfoundland.
she is recognized as the first first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean
Clara Barton!
Gurtrude Ederle.
Amelia Earhart was the first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic. The year however was 1932. 1928 was the year she was the first female pilot to cross the North American continent back and forth.
She was famous for many reasons, the first being the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger. Later she was to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo.