Everything about Lincoln Ellsworth totally explained
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 US$100,000 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.
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.
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.
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.
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