Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1946-1948)
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found: My Antarctic honeymoon, 1957:p. 9 (Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition)
found: Isaac Schlossbach papers, 1928-1973:(polar explorer, submariner and aviation pioneer; member of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition and the MacGregor Expedition to Greenland; During World War II he served with the Navy in Greenland, the South Pacific, and Newfoundland. After the war he went to Antarctica with Finn Ronne's Antarctic Research Expedition from 1946 to 1948)
found: Wikipedia.org, Feb. 3, 2016(Finne Ronne; b. December 20, 1899, Horten, Norway; d. January 12, 1980, Bethesda, Maryland; Norwegian-born U.S. Antarctic explorer; Ronne returned to Antarctica in the 1940s, with support of the American Geographical Society. The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition from 1946 to 1948 mapped and explored the Weddell Sea coastline and set a number of polar records)
found: Ronne Family Antarctic Explorers WWW site, Feb. 3, 2016 (Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1946-1948; led by Finn Ronne, was the last privately sponsored U.S. expedition; using Byrd's old base, East Base, on Stonington Island; closed the unexplored gap at the head of the Weddell Sea; explored a 1.4 million square miles of territory and mapped a further 450,000 square miles of newly discovered land; expedition members included Comdr. Isaac Schlossbach, U.S.N. retired, 2nd in command (Ike), skipper of the ship)
found: OCLC, Feb. 3, 2016(hdgs.: Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1946-1948); usage: Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1946-1948; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition Washington D.C.)
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2000-02-28: new
2021-12-04: revised
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