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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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In 1926, he flew over the North Pole in an airship, the Norge, with Italian explorer Umberto Nobile and American adventurer Lincoln Ellsworth.
Hunt is on for polar explorer Amundsen's seaplane by AFP / AFP Global Edition
A team of explorers--Norwegian Roald Amundsen, American Lincoln Ellsworth, and Italian Umberto Nobile--crosses the North Pole in a dirigible (balloonlike airship).
The Pole at last! Reading a chronology by Junior Scholastic
If Byrd did not succeed, historians of polar exploration said, the team on the dirigible Norge - Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth and the Italian Umberto Nobile - should be recognized as the first to fly over the North Pole.
FLIGHT LOG HINTS BYRD FELL SHORT OF POLAR GOAL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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