Edith "Jackie" Ronne (b. 1919) was a U.S. explorer of Antarctica. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ...

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. The Norwegian-American Finn Ronne (in Norwegian: Finn Rønne) (20 December 1899, Horten, Norway – 12 January 1980, Bethesda, Maryland) was a U.S. antarctic explorer. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marguerite Bay (68°30′ S 068°30′ W) is an extensive bay on the western side of Antarctic Peninsula, which is bounded on the north by Adelaide Island, and on the south by Wordie Ice Shelf, George VI Sound, and Alexander Island. ...

She is one of the namesakes of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, and Edith Ronne Land is also named after her. The calving of A-38 off Ronne ice shelf The Filchner-Ronne ice shelf is in Antarctica bordering the Weddell Sea. ...

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. Location of the South Pole in the Antarctic continent. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872–June 18?, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MV Pride of Aloha docked in Port of Nāwiliwili, Kaua‘i in the Hawaiian Islands A cruise ship, or less commonly cruise liner or luxury liner, is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the amenities of the ship are considered an essential part...

External link

• Edith Ronne's recollections