Matthew Henson was an explorer. He accompanied Admiral Robert Peary on all of his Arctic expeditions including reaching the North Pole in 1909. He became an indispensable member of the team, learning the Inuit language, how to make sleds and run the sled dogs. He happened to be African-American and was not given the credit he deserved until much later in life.
I had never heard about him until several years ago when I purchased a Peary doll from the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and subsequently learned that they were planning on having a Henson doll made. They finally did this and I bought him this year. Both dolls are TBs that sometimes go exploring with me. Answer the following questions to get the final coordinates of the cache. .
1. Henson and Peary collected xxx in Greenland and sold them to the American Museum of Natural History?
Wooly Mammoth bones (618) Meteorites (525) a Viking ship (934)
2. Which recognition did NOT happen?
Awarded the Congressional Medal in 1944 (882)
Reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery in 1987 (404)
Movie made in 1954 (379)
Accepted as a member of the Explorers Club in 1937 (791)
The answers to the questions can be found here: Matthew Henson
The final coordinates are:
N 43* 49. (answer to #1)
W 071* 04.(answer to #2)