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'Lincoln Ellsworth' (May 12, 1880 - May 26, 1951) was a U.S. explorer.
Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.
Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent $100,000US to fund Roald Amundsen's venture from Norway to the North Pole in 1925. Ellsworth was a pilot for this trip.
Along with Amundsen, Ellsworth sighted the Geographic North Pole in 1926 from the airship Norge, designed and piloted by the Italian Umberto Nobile, in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska. This was the first undisputed sighting of the area.
On November 23, 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range, which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains. Mount Ellsworth and Lake Ellsworth, both in Antarctica, are also named after him.
The United States Postal Service once produced a stamp with his picture.
''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.

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★ Airship Norge

★ List of firsts

★ North Pole

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★ Lincoln Ellsworth