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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

Jean Batten

Jean Batten

Jean Batten

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Born: September 15, 1909

Died: November 22, 1982 (aged 73)

Bio: Jean Gardner Batten was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world.

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