In the history of exploration, Aida de Acosta is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Aida de Acosta as American aviator.
Aida de Acosta was born in 1884. Her recorded nationality is United States.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
She is recorded as aircraft pilot.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Aida de Acosta died in 1962, aged 78. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as aircraft pilot
