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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 22 > Explorer Adelaide ‘Su-Lin’ Young lent her name to first U.S. panda

Explorer Adelaide ‘Su-Lin’ Young lent her name to first U.S. panda

By Patricia Sullivan / The Bulletin
May 22, 2008

Adelaide “Su-Lin” Young, 96, the first American woman to explore the rugged Himalayas in the 1930s and for whom the first giant panda brought to the United States was named, died April 17 of cardiopulmonary arrest at a home-care facility in Hercules, Calif.

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