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Article: 2006 Explorer Geo Challange.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- January 20, 2006
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Lace up your hiking boots, pack your backpack, and saddle up your llama! It's time to test your knowledge of world explorers! The 2006 Explorer Geo Challenge will take you to the ends of the Earth! You'll track famous (and some not-so-famous) explorers over oceans and across snowy mountains. Open this issue vertically, and all the questions will be in front of you; the answers are on the reverse-don't peek! Take your time as you read and answer each question. For each correct response, you get 1 point. The first question appears above.
1. In which year did Victoria Murden and Shirley Metz, the first Americans to make an overland trek to the South Pole, complete ...
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