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Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler , he was born in Chicago, Illinois . Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent $100,000US to fund Roald Amundsen 's venture from Norway to the North Pole in 1925. Ellsworth was a pilot for this trip. Along with Amundsen, Ellsworth is credited as being the first people to have sighted the Geographic North Pole . They sighted the pole in 1926 from the Airship Norge , designed and piloted by the Italian Umberto Nobile , in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska . On November 23 , 1935 , Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf . He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range , which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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