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Under the auspices of The Explorers Club
Since 1904 the members of our Club have been the first ones to reach the North Pole and the South Pole, the firsts to climb the Everest and descend into the deepest waters of the Ocean or to walk on the Moon's surface. Since 1918, our members have seen themselves honored with the straight of bearing the Club's flag during selected Scientific Expeditions and of Discovery, which constitutes great honour and privilege. Each of them must be given back to the Club at the return, and therefore each of them embodies those achievements, and are a testimony of the daring, tenacity and perseverance demonstrated by its members. There exist nowadays 202 numbered flags, each of them with its history. Some of the most antique or famous ones have been retired of circulation, that is the case of those that accompanied Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amslrong to the Moon with the Apollo 11, or that traveled with the Expedition of Peary to the North Pole. These can be admired today in the Club's assembly halls in New York, together with other binnacles and mementos of these explorations. For this we feel very proud and honored in conferring the straight of bearing a flag of the Club in this Expedition in search of the arisings of Humanity and their Art in the recondite jungles of Papua New Guinea.
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