One of those in attendance was Jackie Ronne, expedition recorder and wife of the now deceased leader.
In the years of 1946 and 1947, Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington were the first women to spend the year in Antarctica.
After she helped finance the Norwegian explorers Finn and Jackie Ronne in an expedition to Antarctica in the late 1940s, the Ronnes named the Sweeney Mountains in her honor.