Answer the following questions to get to waypoint 1
E: What year was he born? The last digit.
F: What was the date of the day he attempted to fly over the North
Pole which he was awarded the Medal of Honuor for the
achievement?
O: How many ships were used in 1928 for his first expedition to the
Antarctic?
G: The number of years to the year, he organise a project to
discover and map large areas of Antarctic territory called
Operation High Jump also during this mission, he made his second
flight over the South Pole.
J: Which expedition did he organised, Operation Highjump which was
his largest Antarctic expedition to date?
L: On the expedition his first one on which he had the official
backing of the U.S. government. The project included extensive
studies of geology, biology, meteorology and exploration. Within a
few months, he was recalled to active duty in the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued in Antarctica
without him. He headed important missions to the Pacific, including
surveys of remote islands for airfields. On one assignment he
visited the fighting front in Europe. He was repeatedly cited for
meritorious service and was present at the Japanese surrender. On
what number expedition was this, add the number 4 to this
number
M: He spent winter months alone operating a meteorological station,
Advance Base, from which he narrowly escaped with his life after
suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly-ventilated stove.
Unusual radio transmissions from him finally began to alarm the men
at the base camp, who then attempted to go to Advance Base. How
many months was he there?
N: He was one of several aviators who attempted to win the Orteig
Prize for making the first nonstop flight between the United States
and France. His flight was sponsored by department-store magnate
Rodman Wanamaker, an early visionary of Trans- Atlantic commercial
flight. What year was this? added the first digit with the last
digit.
AB: The famous flight to the South Pole and back was launched along
with pilot, co-pilot/radioman , and photographer, flew the to the
South Pole and back in hours, how many minutes?
H: How many hours did it take to do this return trip? Subtract the
last number by the first number
K: Operation Highjump, was the largest Antarctic expedition to
date. How many personnel were involved, First digit?
CD:What was the year of his death? The first digit and then the
last digit
P: How many airplanes were used in his first expedition?
S: AB CD.EFP E: GHJ KL.MNO
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Now that you have refuelled and are all ready, go to you final
location at a bearing of 181 degrees mag for a distances of
2244.094", there you will arrive at your final destination.
The final cache is a Camo 200ml Sistema container to keep it
well hidden. Please replace as you found it. Once you have
completed this cache please feel free to go and visit the momument
as well as do all the nearby caches
Cache contains the following when it was released
A logbook and a pencil
Spinnig Top
Rugby Card
Dinosaur
Fish Pebble
CAUTION:
Management reserves the right to remove any logs and images
giving away the final location, after all this is a puzzle cache.
Don't spoil the fun for others. You have been warned!
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