Woni Spotts: First Black Woman to Travel to Every Country and Continent.
Career
Woni Spotts is officially recorded and validated by professional documents examiners. Passport stamps, photos, filming permits, receipts, airline tickets, tour companies, certificates, and itineraries were researched to register the travel to every country.
Awards and Certificates
The certificate is dated Apri 4, 2019 to reflect the date the documents began verification by United States archivists. Woni Spotts completed the journey to become the First Black Woman to Travel to Every Country in September 2018.
2-8-14 Certificate for Crossing the International Date Line
12-22-14 Certificate for Sailing to Antarctica
2-8-14 Certificate for Crossing the International Date Line
12-20-14 Certificate for First Class Galapagos Argonaut'
4-19-19 Silver Status Award by Travelers’ Century Club
4-19-19 Gold Status Award by Travelers’ Century Club
5-6-23 America Records Institute (AMRI) and Decision No. WK/USA.INDIA/1000/2023/No.456 and officially declared the “Worlds First Black Woman to Visit Every Country” by World Records Union (World Kings) on May 6, 2023, a member of World Creativity Science Academy (WCSA).
https://worldkings.org/news/recognized-records/worldkings-top-500-constant-world-records-p-446-woni-spotts-usa-the-world-s-first-black-woman-to-visit-every-country
Between 1979 and 1982 Woni Spotts visited what are now 162 countries and other locations on the documentary “Passing Through” (1989).
Filming Locations: Antigua, Dominica, St Lucia, Grenada, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Fiji, Palau, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Dili, East Timor, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, CostaRica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, Guyana, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique, Comoros, Swaziland/Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Central Republic of Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast/Côte D'Ivoire, Liberia,Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania,Western Sahara, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Cyprus, Malta, Lebanon, Syria,Yemen/Socotra, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,Portugal, San Marino, Andorra,Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary Albania, Austria, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia.
Filming locations https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4957430/locations/?ref_=tt_dt_loc
In the mid 2000s, Woni Spotts lived in 3 countries, France, Monaco, and the United States of America.
Between February 2014 and September 2018, Woni Spotts traveled to 30 countries, Chile, Bolivia, Turkey, Jordan, Spain, China, Greece, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Vatican City, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Belize, Egypt, Peru, Mexico, Australia, Tanzania, India, Morocco, Ecuador, Cambodia, Samoa, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, and Lichtenstein.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woni_Spotts
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7338356/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4957430/locations
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4957430/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
https://travelerscenturyclub.org/2019/08/24/well-traveled-september-2019/
https://travelerscenturyclub.org/2019/08/24/a-hearty-welcome-to-new-tcc-members-30/