Websites & Books For Info

World Book Encyclopedia Books H & P

Google Images (Pictures)

http://www.matthewhenson.com/discovered.htm

http://www.matthewhenson.com/chronology.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_henson.html

Meaning of USNS

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/glossarytermsu/g/u6644.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/h/henson.shtml

Wiki Anwsers

http://www.matthewhenson.org/North_Pole_Trip2.htm

http://www.matthewhenson.com/1932_NY_times.htm

Wikipedia

Explorer Extras

The navy named a Oceanographic Survey Ship after Henson called "The USNS Henson". Henson was given a award called "The Hubbard Medal" for exploration and discovery. The "Matthew Henson Middle School" in Indian Head, Maryland was made near the place where Henson was born.

Hubbard Medal

The USNS (United States Naval Ship) Henson

Death Bed

1966

At the age of 89 March 9 Matthew Henson died in New York. He died because he had a disease called "Pie Hemorrhage" which is "a type of stroke occurs when a defective artery in the brain bursts, flooding the surrounding tissue with blood."
Quote from http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Matthew_Henson_die_and_where.
On April 6, 1988, the remains of Matthew Henson and his wife were transported to Washington, D.C., where they were re-buried among. among other American heroes and near the grave site of Robert Peary and his wife Josephine Deibitsch Peary.

Past The Pole

1909 April 6th

When Henson travelled on April 6th he looked at the coordinations and he saw that he must have passed the Pole. He showed this to General Peary and he said "it seems we have". But they had already found the pole!

Map Of Arctic

To The North Pole

1909

Eighteen years after finding the arctic, Matthew A. Henson, Robert E. Peary, and four Inuit guides by the names of Eginwah, Seegloo, Ootah, and Ooqueah set off to the North Pole. Henson and the Inuit guides were the first to find the North Pole. But Peary said that Henson's coordinates were off and he found the pole before them. Henson was ahead of Peary by forty-five minutes and they had to wait for him.

Henson, Peary, and Inuit guides at Pole

Peary And Henson The First Journey

1887

At the age of 21 Peary invited Henson to find a canal route to Nicarugua. They roe on a custom made boat that Peary desinded called the USS Roosevelt. While trying to find the canal route they ended up in what we cal today the Arctic. In their time they went on seven expedition to the Arctic that took over eighteen years to take all of the trips.

The USS Roosevelt

First Jobs

1878-1879

After running away from home between the age of 12 and 13 Henson became a cabin boys for a job on the ship "Katie Hines" for Captain Childs.

1884

When he became 18 he took many jobs around the east coast.

Henson with American Flag