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Ruia Morrison, tennis champion and trailblazer for Māori in sport.
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Wanda Messam changed the lives of more than 300 children through foster care.
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Dame Margaret Sparrow was a trailblazing doctor and advocate for legal abortions in New Zealand.
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Beatrice Tinsley was a world-renowned astrophysicist and trailblazer for women in science.
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was a Queen of Crime and best-selling novelist.
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Nancy Wake was a WWII hero and the Gestapo's most wanted person.
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Anne Barry was the first female firefighter in the British Commonwealth.
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Helen Thayer is a world record-setting adventurer and the first woman to walk solo to the magnetic North Pole.
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Georgina Beyer was the world’s first openly transgender mayor and Member of Parliament.
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Dame Whina Cooper was a celebrated Māori leader and advocate for Māori rights and welfare.
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Helen Clark was New Zealand's first elected female Prime Minister and the first woman to head the United Nations Development Fund.
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Pioneering scientist and the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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World-leading expert in Orca whales and animal welfare advocate
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First woman to undertake an Antarctic research programme
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History-making palaeontologist, who discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand
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Pioneering researcher and one of the first women to set foot on the South Pole
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Ground-breaking chemist and champion of women in science
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The first Māori woman to become a registered doctor
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Pioneering meteorologist who helped discover the hole in the ozone layer
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Ancient Māori healer and pioneer of herbal medicine
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Ground-breaking microbiologist
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World War I hero and early safe-sex campaigner
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New Zealand's first female doctor
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