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Flag Reports

The Explorers Club flag represents a history of courage and accomplishment and has been carried on hundreds of expeditions since 1918. Any member of the Club approved to carry the flag is required upon return to issue, in hardcopy, an official Flag Report, fulfilling a fundamental part of the Club's mission: To engage in scientific exploration and share the results.

Today, there are 202 numbered flags. While a select few have been retired for preservation, and others have been lost to the ravages of Nature and the Postal Service, the rest are carried and returned, in rotation, as they have been over the last hundred years on ever-new voyages of exploration.

Approved Flag Expeditions and Reports by Year

2012 |2011 |2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2004

Flag# 0 - Headhunt Revisited: Charting Cultural Change in Melanesia

2004

Michele Westmorland FN’95

Flag# 0 - The Longest March–Beyond the Pole

2004

Rune Gjeldnes FI’02

Flag# 24 - Arqueonautas Worldwide Archaeological Project Mocambique 2004

2004

Nikolaus Graf Sandizell MI’01

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Flag# 25 - In Search of Greely

2004

Geoffrey E. Clark MN’88

Flag# 28 - Helike—Lost City

2004

Suzi Zetkus MR’99

Flag# 28 - Vermont BioBlitz

2004

Suzi Zetkus MR’99

Flag# 35 - Mamasa Mountain Peoples Expedition

2004

Phyllis Hischier MN’03

Flag# 42 - Dinosaurs of the Gobi

August 29, 2004–September 13, 2004

Judith W. Schrafft FN’83

Flag# 46 - 2004 Yellowstone Lake MATBI

August 2004

Jay M. Short LF’03

Flag# 46 - 2004 Kamchatka Microbial Expedition

August 2004

Jay M. Short LF’03

Flag# 49 - Canadian Arctic Expedition (Stefanson Memorial)

July 2004–August 2004

Ross MacPhee FR’03

Flag# 50 - The Roggeveen Expedition

March 23–April 17, 2004

Michael Clark Hilton MN’00

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Flag# 60 - Bhutan Photo Library Expedition

April 2004–May 2004

Kenneth Kamler FR’84

Flag# 61 - Abydos Research Project

2004

James Westerman FN’98

Flag# 65 - Yunnan Western Border and Mountain Expedition

April 2004–October 2004

Peter J. Foley MN’03

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Flag# 68 - Ansari X Prize

2004

Peter H. Diamandis FN’94

Flag# 69 - The Quelccaya Ice Cap 2004

2004

Carl Andrew Reese FN’03

Flag# 73 - Bhutan West to East Traverse

2004

Daryl Hawk MR’98

Flag# 83 - Rio Palena Expedition 2005

December 2004–January 2005

Scott W. Hamilton FR’82

Flag# 86 - The Narwhal Tooth Expedition and Research Investigations

2004

Martin T. Nweeia FN’99

Flag# 95 - Expedition Siberia

2004

Mikael Strandberg MI’03

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Flag# 100 - Search for Early Sealers

December 2004

Richard Gantt (Rex Passion)

Flag# 108 - Gray Whale Obstacle Course

March 2004–August 2004

Jean-Michel Cousteau FN’01

Flag# 108 - Project Piaba

2004

William C. Phoel FN’87

Flag# 117 - Student Teams Study Atmospheric Phenomena in the Colorado Rockies

2004

Edward E. Hindman FR’86

Flag# 132 - Hindu Kush/Pamir Mountain Expedition 2004

2004

Gary Warren Bowersox FN’95

Flag# 132 - 2004 SS Aleutian Archaeological Exploration

2004

Peter E. Hess FN’88

Flag# 132 - Patagonia Dinosaur Project

2004

Kenneth J. Lacovara FN’03

Flag# 134 - Together to the Pole

2004

Marek Kaminski FI’96

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Flag# 146 - Relief Expedition to Argentine Scientific (General Belgrano)

2004

William H. Littlewood FE’56

Flag# 146 - Lifeboat Transpacific

August 2004–June 2005

Andrew A. Urbanczyk FN’02

Flag# 146 - Bhutan Medical Survey/Photo Documentation

November 14–30, 2004

Kenneth Kamler, MD FR’84

Flag# 147 - High Altitude Physiology Study: Heart Rate/Power Performance by Age and Gender

August 26, 2004–September 20, 2004

Kirk Usher, Jr MN’98

Flag# 151 - New England Tropical Conservatory Central Java Sumbawa

March 2004–April 2004

James M. Hunter MN’98

Flag# 152 - 2004 Pantiacolla/Paititi Expedition: Seeking the furthest reach of the Incas

2004

Gregory Deyermenjian

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Flag# 152 - Gansu Province Discovery Quest Expedition

July 2004–August 2004

Kenneth J. Lacovara FN’03

Flag# 155 - Nam Theun–Annamite Mountains Expedition

2004

Lee M. Talbot FE’57

Flag# 155 - USS Monitor 2004 Expedition

July 2004–August 2004

Kathy Weydig MN’01

Flag# 160 - Sorcerer II Global Expedition

January 2004–April 2005

J. Craig Venter MN’94

Flag# 161 - China/USA Caves Project Hunan 2004

March 2004–April 2004

Ian Doyle Baren FR’97

Flag# 161 - Chelyuskin 2004 Arctic Underwater Expedition

August 2004

Alexander Borodin MI’04

Flag# 179 - Expedition to the Cradle of Mankind for Botanical Exploration

February 2004–March 2004

Jackson Campbell May MN’88

Flag# 179 - Maasai Oral Histories Project/Expedition

June 2004–December 2004

Robert Pearlman MED’78

Flag# 186 - Cycling the Silk Web–Iran/Turkey 2004 Expedition

2004

Alan H. Nichols MN’84