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Also Known As William Linn Ellsworth
Born May 12, 1880 • Chicago • Illinois
Died May 26, 1951 (aged 71) • New York City • New York

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Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon after their trans-Antarctic flight, 1936.
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Richard E. Byrd
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Portrait of American Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary wearing a double-breasted military uniform with decorative buttons and shoulder epaulets.
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George Wallace Melville
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Isaac Israel Hayes
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Polar explorer Frederick Cook
Frederick Albert Cook
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Ernest Shackleton
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Roald Amundsen in a fur-trimmed coat, looking directly at the camera in a black-and-white portrait from 1923.
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Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
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Ejnar Mikkelsen
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