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Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 4/15/1948 
Photographer: Bernie Aumuller 
Amount: 10
Size: 4x5inches



"The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored expedition from the United States and explored and mapped the last unknown coastline on earth and determined that the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea were not connected. The expedition included Isaac Schlossbach, as second in command, who was to have Cape Schlossbach named after him. The expedition, based out of Stonington Island was the first to take women to over-winter. Ronne's wife, Edith Ronne was correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance for expedition and the chief pilot Darlington took his wife."

"Using Byrd's old base, East Base, on Stonington Island, Ronne closed the unexplored gap at the head of the Weddell Sea.

The expedition explored a 1/4 of a million square miles of territory and mapped a further 450,0000 square miles of newly discovered land."


Expedition Members:

 

Comdr. Finn Ronne, U.S.N.R., Expedition Leader

Comdr. Isaac Schlossbach, U.S.N. (Ret.), Second in Command (Ike) Skipper of Ship

Dr. Robert L. Nichols, Geologist and Senior Scientist Trail Man (Bob or Nich)

Harris-Clichy Peterson, Physicist  (Harcly or Pete)

Andrew A. Thompson, Geophysicist  (Andy)

Edith “Jackie” (Mrs. Finn) Ronne, Recorder

Capt. James W. Lassiter, U.S.A.F., Pilot  (Jim or Jimmy)

Lieut. Charles J. Adams, U.S.A.F., Pilot  (Chuck)

Harry Darlington, Pilot  (Harry)

Jennie (Mrs. Harry) Darlington

James B. Robertson, Aviation Mechanic  (Jimmy)

Charles Hassage, Ship’s Chief Engineer  (Chuck)

William R. Latady, Photographer  (Bill)

C. O. Fiske, Climatologist, (Larry)

Walter Smith, Ship’s Mate, Navigator and Trail Man  (Smitty)

Nelson McClary, Ship’s Mate  (Mac)

Sigmund Gutenko, Chief Commissary Steward, U.S.N., on furlough with expedition  (Sig)

Lawrence Kelsey, Radio Operator  (Kelsey)

Robert H. T. Dodson, Asst. Geologist, Surveyor amd Trail Man  (Bob)

Donald McLean, Medical Officer  (Don)

Ernest A. Wood, Ship’s Engineer  (Woody)

Arthur Owen, Boy Scout and Trail Man (Art)

Jorge de Giorgio Valdes, Mess Cook  (Chilean)  (George)


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