Namesake of the Ronne ice shelf, first American woman to set foot on Antarctica, one of the first women to spend a winter in Antarctica and 1/2 of the first married couple to ever go to The South Pole has passed away at age 89.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703502.html?hpid=topnews
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