Edith Ronne

Edith Ronne

Edith "Jackie" Ronne (born 13 October 1919) was a U.S. explorer of Antarctica.

She married Finn Ronne on March 18, 1941, and on the expedition of 1946–1948, that her husband commanded, she and Jennie Darlington, the wife of the expedition's chief pilot, became the first women to overwinter in Antarctica. They spent 15 months together with five other member of the expedition in a small station they had set up on Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay.

She is one of the namesakes of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, and Edith Ronne Land is also named after her.

Edith Ronne returned several times to Antarctica, including on a Navy-sponsored flight to the South Pole in 1971 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Roald Amundsen first reaching the South Pole (she was the seventh woman at the pole), and a 1995 trip back to her former base at Stonington Island as guest lecturer on the expedition cruise ship "Explorer".

External links

* [http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/nspt/explore/heels01.htm Edith Ronne's recollections]


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