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Ellsworth, Lincoln

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Ellsworth, Lincoln (1880–1951)

US explorer and engineer. Working initially as a surveyor, prospector, and mining and railroad engineer, he was the first person to fly over both the North Pole in a dirigible (1926) and the South Pole in an aeroplane (1935).

Born in Chicago, he studied at Yale and Columbia University. During World War I, he received army flight training and he claimed some 380,000 square miles of Antarctic territory (Ellsworth Land) for the USA as a result of his overflights (1935, 1939). In 1941, he led an expedition to Peru.



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