TITLE: Reference request: 2-dimensional Schonflies theorem
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: Does anyone know a reference for the 2-dimensional version of the Schoenflies theorem?  To be precise, I'd like a reference for the fact that every continuous, 1-1 map $S^1\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ extends to a homeomorphism $\mathbb{R}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$.  The discussions of the Jordan Curve Theorem that I can remember don't prove this stronger statement.
This statement is mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the  Schoenflies problem .  I looked through several papers on the generalized Schoenflies problem (which requires extra hypotheses in higher dimensions to rule out things like the Alexander Horned Sphere), but no luck...

REPLY [2 votes]: Thomassen's paper on triangulating surfaces addresses this as well. 
See: Triangulating surfaces