Before exploring for the cache you must figure out the “First Explorer”
(WHO and WHEN) for the following events and decipher your answers.
1. First American Woman in space.
X2 _ _ _ X1 _ _ X3 _; year: ____
X=X1-X2-X3
2. First European to sail to Greenland.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _; year: ____
3. First to cross the Antarctic Circle.
X1 _ _ X2 _ _ _ X3 _; year: ____
X=(X1+X2)-X3
4. First European to see a bison (American Buffalo, not a cache container).
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _; year: ____
5. First recorded exploring expedition.
X2 _ _ X1 _; year: ____
X=(X1-X2) / 2
6. First European to sail to Australia.
X1 _ _ _ _ _ X2 _ _ _ X3 _ _ _; year: ____
X=(X1+X2)-X3
7. First US Senator to fly in the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs (STS year).
_ _ X2 _ _ _ _ _ X1; year: ____
X=X1-X2
8. First Westerner to penetrate the Arctic Circle (may have been).
_ X1 _ _ _ _ X2; year: ____
X=X1-X2
9. First European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _; year: ____
10. First submerged circumnavigation of the world (Captain).
_ _ X3 _ X1 _ _ X2 _ _ _; year: ____
X=(X1+X2)-X3
11. First founder of a US settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
_ _ _ _ _ X1 _ _ _ _ X2; year: ____
X=X1-X2
12. First to log a geocache find (caching name, GC12).
_ _ _ _ X; year: ____
13. First to sail beyond the dreaded Cape Bojador and return.
X1 _ _ _ _ _ _ X2 _ ; year: ____
X=X1-X2
14. First to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible.
X2 _ _ _ X3 X4 _ X1 _ _ _ _ _ ; year: ____
X=(X1-X2)+(X3-X4)
15. First women to climb the "Seven Summits"
X2 _ _ _ _ _ X3 _ _ X1; year: ____
X=(X1-X2)+X3
To decipher the coordinates for the cache location:
Put the “First Events” in chronological order.
Transpose the letters to numbers.
Solve for X
Fill the blanks:
N _ _ _ _ ._ _ _ W _ _ _ _ _._ _ _
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
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