Born on August 15, 1875 in Brigus, Newfoundland, Robert Abram Bartlett was the eldest of ten children of William James Bartlett and Mary J. Leamon. Born into a family of renowned seal hunters and sailing masters, and heir to a family tradition of seafaring, the sea was in his blood.
He grew up in Hawthorne Cottage in Brigus, and by the age of 17, he mastered his first ship and began a lifelong love affair with the Arctic. Bartlett spent more than 50 years mapping and exploring the waters of the Far North and led over 40 expeditions to the Arctic, more than anyone before or since.
From 1898 to 1909, Captain Bob accompanied renowned American explorer Robert E. Peary on three separate attempts to reach the North Pole. During the third voyage, as Captain of the Roosevelt, led the expedition to 87°48' N latitude—farther north than anyone had reached before him, and on later voyages was the first person to sail north of 88° N. He was awarded the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society for breaking the trail through the frozen Arctic Sea to within 150 miles of the pole.
In 1914, Bartlett’s leadership in the doomed Karluk Expedition helped save the lives of most of its stranded participants after leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson abandoned the expedition. After being stranded for several months, Bartlett and Inuit hunter Kataktovik walked 1100 kilometers from Wrangel Island over the ice of the Chukchi Sea and across Siberia and then mounted an expedition from Alaska to rescue his surviving companions on Wrangel Island. He received the highest award from the Royal Geographical Society for his outstanding heroism.
In 1917, Bartlett rescued the members of Donald Baxter MacMillan's ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, who had been stuck on the ice for four years.
From 1925-1945, at the command of his own schooner, the Effie M. Morrissey, Bartlett led many important scientific expeditions to the Arctic sponsored by American museums, the Explorers Club and the National Geographic Society, and he also helped to survey the Arctic for the United States Government during World War II.
The Canadian Coast Guard vessel CCGS Bartlett is named for Bartlett. Canada Post featured Bartlett on a Canadian postage stamp released on July 10, 2009.
Bartlett died when he was 71 in a New York hospital from pneumonia and was buried in his hometown of Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Now, the cache!
It is not at the published coordinates!
You must complete the Adventure Lab, Bob Bartlett's Brigus obtaining your Ship's Master designation to get the starting coordinates. At these coordinates you will be looking for a person with whom you are now familiar.
Then you will have to use your navigation skills to steer on a heading of BCD°, sailing A meters to GZ.
Solve A, B, C, and D, where
A = the total of all letters and numerals on RAB's side, except RAB's dates. A is a 3 digit number.
B = the last numeral in Mary's annus natalis.
C= (the third numeral in Mary's annus natalis )-(the last numeral in her sons annus natalis ), and
D= the last numeral in Eleanor's annus natalis .