Background
Lincoln was born on May 12, 1880, to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio, United States as a child.
(On May 12th, 1926, at 1:30 in the morning Roald Amundsen ...)
On May 12th, 1926, at 1:30 in the morning Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth looked down from the cabin of the airship Norge and knew that they were over the North Pole. It was a busy moment. They dropped flags - the American, the Norwegian, and the Italian. Two of them, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting had seen the South Pole - from dog sleds. The third, Lincoln Ellsworth, saw the culmination of years of planning the conquest of the Arctic by air.
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1928
(Excerpt from Search Polar Basin. And there is Amundsen's...)
Excerpt from Search Polar Basin. And there is Amundsen's own word for it that Ellsworth's participation in the two Arctic Expeditions of 1925 and 1926 was an essential factor to their success. The amundsen-ellsworth Expedition of 1925 reached latitude 87° 44' North. It explored square miles of hitherto unknown area, it took soundings which showed depths of the Polar Basin at that latitude to be feet, which fact pre cluded the possibility of land on the Europe side of the Pole, and its observations showed that meteoro logical conditions offered no obstacles to aerial ex ploration of Arctic regions.
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Lincoln was born on May 12, 1880, to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio, United States as a child.
Graduating from preparatory school in 1900, he briefly attended Yale and Columbia universities, but his real interest was in outdoor life.
He traveled extensively, working in Canada and Alaska as a railroad surveyor and mining engineer. He then formally studied practical astronomy and surveying in preparation for realizing his lifelong ambition-polar exploration. A true adventurer, Ellsworth participated in the Canadian government's buffalo hunt of 1911, prospected for gold, spent 3 years with the U. S. Biological Survey on the Pacific coast, and volunteered for service in World War I, training as a pilot in France. Following the war and protracted illness, Ellsworth in 1924 joined a geological expedition to Peru. The following year Ellsworth joined and largely financed the expedition with Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, that initiated Arctic exploration by air. Flying from Spitsbergen for the North Pole in two planes, the party of six reached 87° 44'N before being forced down with engine trouble. One plane was badly damaged during the landing, and it took 3 weeks to get the other plane off the polar ice pack. They returned to Spitsbergen to announce that no land existed on the European side of the pole. In 1926 Amundsen and Ellsworth returned to the Arctic, this time with a semirigid airship, the Norge. Ellsworth concentrated on geologic work in the American Southwest for several years, although in 1931 he represented the American Geographic Society on the Arctic flight of the Graf Zeppelin. He undertook the exploration of Antarctica by air in 1933. In 1935, on his third attempt, Ellsworth and his pilot crossed Antarctica, landing 16 miles short of Richard Byrd's abandoned camp at Little America, where they were rescued. On this and a subsequent flight in 1939 Ellsworth discovered and claimed for the United States 377, 000 square miles of land. He died in New York City on May 26, 1951.
(On May 12th, 1926, at 1:30 in the morning Roald Amundsen ...)
1928(Excerpt from Search Polar Basin. And there is Amundsen's...)
Ellsworth was a bold, imaginative, superbly conditioned man.