Godwanna was a Euterpian. She was part of a five member recon team from the Euterpian mothership that crashed in Australia around 40,000 BC. They planned to refuel the mothership from Earth's magnetic core, but before that happened, the mothership was destroyed by solar flares. The recon team (Atimkos, Godwanna, Thorsuun, Udentkista, and Tarwildbaning) were the only survivors. Godwanna and Atimkos' plans to destroy Earth in 1994 were defeated by the Second Doctor.
Atimkos killed Godwanna while in her hyper reality nexus. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
Behind the scenes
Gary Russell named Jacqueline Pearce as his preference for who would play the character in an imaginary film version of Invasion of the Cat People.