File:Autographed Portrait Of Aviatrix Jean Batten (26692133432).jpg
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Description: Jean Batten was known as the Garbo of the Skies. She was born in New Zealand in 1909 and died in Majorca in 1982. She set several long distance flight records between England and Australia, England and New Zealand and England and South America.
(Information taken from: US Centennial of Flight database, retrieved 16 November 2004, from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/batten/EX24.htm)
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Description: Jean Batten was known as the Garbo of the Skies. She was born in New Zealand in 1909 and died in Majorca in 1982. She set several long distance flight records between England and Australia, England and New Zealand and England and South America.
(Information taken from: US Centennial of Flight database, retrieved 16 November 2004, from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/batten/EX24.htm)
View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/144535
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
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