Ronne Entrance

Ronne Entrance
	The Ronne Entrance (bottom left) and the George VI Sound (red line)
Waters	Bellingshausen lake
Land mass	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Geographical location	72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W
Islands	DeAtley Island
Tributaries	Hill glacier

The Ronne Entrance is the southern entrance from the Bellingshausen Sea into the George VI Sound . In the northwest it is bounded by the southwest side of Alexander I Island and in the southwest by Smyley Island , Spaatz Island and DeAtley Island .

It was discovered in December 1940 by the American polar explorer Finn Ronne (1899–1980) and his compatriot, the ornithologist and geographer Carl Robert Eklund (1909–1962), on a dog sled excursion during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) ). The book, originally named Ronne Bay , expanded over the next few years increasingly into the icy George VI Sound, so that the name was finally adapted to the geomorphological change. It is named after Finn Ronne, head of the Antarctic expedition named after him (1947–1948), his father Martin Rønne (1861–1932), a Norwegian polar explorer and participant in the South Pole expedition (1910–1912), Roald Amundsen's and the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1932). 1930) Richard Evelyn Byrds .

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