Lincoln Ellsworth

Ellsworth, Lincoln 

Born May 12, 1880, in Chicago, III.; died May 26, 1951, in New York, N.Y. American polar explorer and aviator.

In 1925, Ellsworth served as a navigator on one of the two aircraft on R. Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole. In 1926 he took part in Amundsen’s expedition aboard the dirigible Norge, which traced a route from Spitsbergen to Alaska via the North Pole. In 1931 he was on board the dirigible Graf Zeppelin when it made a flight to Franz Josef Land. In November and December 1935, Ellsworth and the aviator H. Hollick-Kenyon made the first transantarctic flight, from the Antarctic Peninsula to Little America, during which they discovered the Eternity Range, the Sentinel Range, and Ellsworth Land and the Ellsworth Mountains, which Ellsworth named in honor of his father, J. Ellsworth. In 1938 and 1939 he flew into the interior regions of Antarctica. A cape on Young Island in the Balleny Islands, a mountain peak in the Queen Maud Range, and an antarctic station have been named in honor of Ellsworth.

WORKS

Beyond Horizons. New York, 1938.

REFERENCE

Treshnikov, A. F. Istoriia otkrytiia i issledovaniia Antarktidy. Moscow, 1963.