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Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 - May 26, 1951) was an explorer from the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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of James Ellsworth
James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker....
 and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio
Hudson, Ohio

Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the United States Census 2000, making it the 389th List of Midwestern cities by size....
 as a child.

oln Ellsworth's father, James
James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker....
, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard
Svalbard

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east....
 to the North Pole.






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Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 - May 26, 1951) was an explorer from the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

Birth

Son of James Ellsworth
James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker....
 and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio
Hudson, Ohio

Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, Ohio, United States. The population was 22,439 at the United States Census 2000, making it the 389th List of Midwestern cities by size....
 as a child.

Arctic/North Pole exploration

Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James
James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth was an American coal mine owner and banker....
, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard
Svalbard

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east....
 to the North Pole. The craft were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface.

In 1926, Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in the airship Norge, designed and piloted by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile

Umberto Nobile was an Italy aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the Golden Age of Aviation between the two World Wars....
, in a flight from Svalbard
Svalbard

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east....
 to Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
. On May 12, the Geographic North Pole was sighted. This was the first undisputed sighting of the area.

Antarctic exploration

Ellsworth made four expeditions to Antarctica between 1933 and 1939, using as his aircraft transporter and base a former Norwegian herring boat that he named Wyatt Earp
HMAS Wyatt Earp

HMAS Wyatt Earp was a motor vessel commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy from 1939 to 1945 and again from 1947 to 1948....
 after his hero.

On November 23, 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains
Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a 360 km long and 48 km wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf....
 of Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
 when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island
Dundee Island

Dundee Island is an ice-covered island lying east of the northeastern tip of Antarctic Peninsula and south of Joinville Island.On January 8, 1893, during the Dundee Whaling Expedition, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland, whence the ship sailed in company with t...
 to the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
. He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range
Sentinel Range

The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica....
, which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains.

Mount Ellsworth
Mount Ellsworth (Antarctica)

Mount Ellsworth is the highest mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains, on the elongated massif between the Steagall Glacier and Amundsen Glaciers....
 and Lake Ellsworth
Lake Ellsworth

Lake Ellsworth is a subglacial lake located in West Antarctica under approximately 3.4 km of ice. It is approximately 10 km long and is estimated to be tens of meters in depth....
, both in Antarctica, are also named after him.

Honors

In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America is the largest List of youth organizations in the United States, with over five million members in its age-related divisions....
 made Ellsworth an Honorary Scout, a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was given to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The other eighteen men who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews was an United States explorer, adventurer and Natural history who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History....
; Robert Bartlett
Robert Bartlett

Captain Robert Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland and Labrador navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
; Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham

Frederick Russell Burnham, Distinguished Service Order was an United States military scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching Scoutcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scou...
; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie
George Kruck Cherrie

George Kruck Cherrie was an United States natural history and explorer.Cherrie was born in Iowa. He took part in about forty expeditions, mostly to Central America and South America, including Theodore Roosevelt's Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition of 1913–1914, when Cherrie was collecting specimens for the American Museum of Na...
; James L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper
Merian C. Cooper

Merian Caldwell Cooper was an United States aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
; Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an United States of America ornithologist, illustrator and artist.Fuertes decided to concentrate on painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip to Washington, D.C....
; George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell

George Bird Grinnell was an United States anthropologist, historian, natural history, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A....
; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George Palmer Putnam
George Palmer Putnam

This article is about the American book publisher who lived from 1814 to 1872. For his grandson, the American publisher, author and explorer who lived from 1887 to 1950 and was married to...
; Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt I Military Cross was a son of President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Kermit was an explorer on two continents with his father, graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British Army and United States Army, a businessperson, and writer....
; Carl Rungius; Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White

Stewart Edward White was an United States author.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan .From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books....
; Orville Wright. The Boy Scout's Book of True Adventure, Fourteen Honorary Scouts, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York in 1931 includes an essay "The First Crossing of the Polar Sea" by Lincoln Ellsworth. The United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service is an Independent agencies of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States....
 once produced a stamp with his picture. To this day, Hudson Ohio's high school teams are named "The Explorers" after Ellsworth.

See also

  • Airship Norge
  • List of firsts
    List of firsts

    This is a list of the first man/woman/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event....
  • North Pole
    North Pole

    The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
  • List of people on stamps of the United States
    List of people on stamps of the United States

    This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps.Since the United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured....
     - Scott catalogue
    Scott catalogue

    The Scott catalogue of postage stamps, published by Scott Publishing Co, a subsidiary of Amos Press, is updated annually and lists all the stamps of the entire world which its editors recognize as issued for postal purposes....
     2389, 25c stamp


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