Indiana Jones in a skirt: the first woman to drive around 80 countries in 1920

• Indiana Jones in a skirt: the first woman to drive around 80 countries in 1920

In the early 1920s, 16-year-old Canadian Vandervell Aloha (Aloha Wanderwell) responded to the announcement of the search for the driver to take part in the expedition, which was published in the French newspaper Paris Herald, and caught the fate of the tail. In 1920 Aloha visited 80 countries, traveling a total of 380,000 miles and gained worldwide fame.

Aloha Vandervell (at birth - Idris Galicia Hall) from the Canadian city of Winnipeg was the first woman who traveled halfway around the world at the age of 16 years.

Aloha was a secretary and a driver of Captain Walter Vandervella, traveler, inventor and former sailor, who later became her husband.

On his first trip to the world Aloha visited 43 countries, including in war-torn Europe.

In the early 1920s aloha traveled to India, where the mix with the locals and see the sights.

When traveling with her husband, Captain Vandervellom, Aloha became a world celebrity.

Aloha and Walter Vandervell against the backdrop of the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, the beginning of the 1920s.

Aloha standing on the hood of his car the famous Ford Model-T, which is immersed in the ship during her tour of Africa, 1920.

Aloha on the ship during its first world tour.

Aloha is photographed in a taxi with the locals during his tour.

Aloha in the Indian motorcycle during his first trip to Europe.

Aloha salutes with the military. The photograph was taken in the early years of her travels around the world with Captain Vandervellom.

Aloha researcher became famous thanks to a series of documentary films about his travels. She lived a long life and died in 1996 in California at the age of 90 years.