Explorers Club Amazon Expedition
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The Explorers Club in cooperation
with Amazon-Indians.org provided medical care to indigenous people in Peru,
Brazil, and Colombia during the first two weeks of April, 2005. The flag
expedition visited Matis, Ticuna, Mayoruna, Marubo, and Yagua communities in
the "Tres Fronteras" (Three Frontiers) area.
The editor of Amazon-Indians, Dr. Dan James Pantone, served as the
expedition leader and made local contacts with various indigenous
communities near the Amazon River in Colombia and the Javari (Yavarí) River
in Brazil and Peru. The medical team consisted of an ophthalmologist and an
ophthalmic technician who made eye-examinations and fitted eyeglasses. The
objectives of the expedition were to document the indigenous Amazonian
cultures of the Matis Indians and other native tribes in the area and to
provide eye care to the communities.
The Explorers Club is a prestigious organization with Sir Edmund Hillary,
the first person to scale Mount Everest, as its honorary chairman at the
time of the mission.
This was a flag expedition and the historic flag used in this operation
(Flag Number 99) was also used in the American Expedition to Antarctica in
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