Mary Hall (explorer)

Hall was born in 1857. Hall gave lecturers about her travels in London and in New Zealand. She travelled through New Zealand and Australia to continue her journeys in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Korea and China before heading home to London on the Trans Siberian Railway. This was the basis for her second and last book. ==Death and legacy==

Hall died in 1912. She is considered to be the first woman to travel overland from Cairo to Cape Town. In 1913 the Royal Geographical Society finally admitted the absurdity of publishing papers by women but not accepting them as fellows. Hall was among the 163 women admitted as fellows that year. A 1996 review of those admitted, started with Hall. It mentioned her second book about her journeys in the Antipodes and in the Far East was published in 1914. It was noted that her work was different to the normal globe trotter because of the "vivacity and shrewdness" of her "observation and comment". ==References==