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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 21 > ‘Jackie’ Ronne was the 1st U.S. woman on Antarctica

‘Jackie’ Ronne was the 1st U.S. woman on Antarctica

By Patricia Sullivan / The Bulletin
June 21, 2009

WASHINGTON — Edith “Jackie” Ronne never intended to leave Bethesda, Md. She had gone to Beaumont, Texas, in 1947, to see off her explorer husband as he and a volunteer crew headed to Antarctica to fill in the blanks on the map of the last continent. She packed....

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