Lincoln Ellsworth

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name = Lincoln Ellsworth


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birth_date = May 12, 1880
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death_date = May 26, 1951
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Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 - May 26, 1951) was a explorer from the United States.

Birth

Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.

Arctic/North Pole exploration

Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Norway to the North Pole. Ellsworth was a pilot of one of two aircraft on this trip: 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, in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska. On May 12, Ellsworth sighted the Geographic North Pole. 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" after his hero. [cite web |title=HMAS "Wyatt Earp" |publisher=Sea Power Centre Australia |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Wyatt_Earp |accessdate=2008-09-16]

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.

Honors

In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America made Ellsworth an "Honorary Scout", a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was give 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; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; James L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; George Bird Grinnell; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George Palmer Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Stewart Edward White; Orville Wright. cite journal |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1927 |month=August 29 |title=Around the World |journal=Time (magazine) |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,723029,00.html |accessdate= 2007-10-24 |quote= ] "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 once produced a stamp with his picture.

ee also

* Airship Norge
* List of firsts
* North Pole
* List of people on stamps of the United States - Scott catalogue 2389, 25c stamp

References

External links

* [http://www.south-pole.com/p0000110.htm Lincoln Ellsworth]