Lincoln Ellsworth American Polar Aviator Dirigible 'Norge' 1930s Trade Ad Card

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Lincoln Ellsworth American Polar Aviator Dirigible 'Norge' 1930s Trade Ad Card
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ORIGINAL 1930s TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
LINCOLN ELLSWORTH
Lincoln Ellsworth, original name William Linn Ellsworth, (born May 12, 1880,
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.-died May 26, 1951, New York, New York), American
explorer, engineer, and scientist who led the first trans-Arctic (1926)
and trans-Antarctic (1935) air crossings.
Fascinated with polar air exploration, Ellsworth financed and accompanied two such
expeditions with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. On the first (1925) they
reached latitude 87? N in two amphibian planes; an emergency landing without
radio caused them to be given up for lost. With 30 days of grim effort, they carved
out a takeoff field on the rough polar ice pack, after which one plane, overloaded
with the total party of six, returned to Spitsbergen (in the Svalbard archipelago), off
northern Norway. The following year Ellsworth and Amundsen, along with the Italian
explorer Umberto Nobile, made the first traverse of the Arctic basin in the dirigible
Norge-a 3,393-mile (5,463-km) journey from Spitsbergen to Alaska that won
worldwide acclaim. In 1931 Ellsworth made an 800-mile (1,300-km) canoe trip
through central Labrador and later that year, for the American Geographical Society
, made flights over Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya-Arctic islands north of
what was then the Soviet Union (now Russia).
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