Wanny Woldstad
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Wanny Woldstad (January 15, 1893 – October 26, 1959) was the first female hunter on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Wanny Woldstad was born Ivanna Margrethe Ingvardsen in Sommarøy, Norway, in 1893.[1][2][3][4] Around 1915, she married Othar Jacobsen, with whom she had two sons, Alf and Bjørvik.[4][5] Othar died during the Spanish flu pandemic, in 1918, and she briefly remarried Martin Mikal Woldstad.[4]
Beginning in the 1920s, she worked as a taxi driver in the Norwegian city of Tromsø, becoming the first woman to drive a cab there. Some of her passengers were trappers returning from the Arctic outpost of Svalbard, who would brag about their exploits and how much money they were making.[5][6]
