Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne (born Dec. 20, 1899, Horten, Nor.—died Jan. 12, 1980, Bethesda, Md., U.S.) was a Norwegian-born American explorer and writer who visited Antarctica nine times, discovering and charting vast areas of the 4,000,000-square-mile (10,400,000-square-kilometre) continent. On his expeditions Ronne traveled an estimated 3,600 miles (5,800 km) by ski and dogsled. He discovered Weddell Sea areas never before visited by explorers. In the Alexander Island area, he discovered a bay that he named for his...