When Edith Ronne bid goodbye to her husband, U.S. Navy Capt. Finn Ronne, in 1947, she didn’t expect to see him for more than a year: He was to spend the winter in Antarctica. But at the last minute, ...

A rare female in a formerly all-male bastion, Edith Ronne was the first known American woman to set foot in Antarctica and one of two women who were the first to spend the winter on the southernmost ...

Only a handful of men have ever gone poking into Antarctica. It is the coldest, loneliest, least known of all the continents; even its coastline has remained an uncompleted puzzle to mapmakers. Last ...

Edith “Jackie” Ronne, who became the first U.S. woman to set foot on Antarctica when she accompanied her explorer husband there in 1947, died Sunday of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease at a Bethesda ...

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 ...

Edith “Jackie” Ronne, 89, who became the first U.S. woman to set foot on Antarctica when she accompanied her explorer husband there in 1947, died June 14 of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease at a ...

Sullivan writes for the Washington Post. Edith “Jackie” Ronne, 89, who became the first U.S. woman to set foot on Antarctica when she accompanied her explorer husband there in 1947, died June 14 of ...