| abstract | - The Hanso family are selling this ledger because they are trying to raise money to gain funding for the Hanso Foundation which they lost in 1980.
* The diary charts down the course the Black Rock sailed on, and thus explains how to get to the Island.
* The Hanso family, which is said to have owned the diary, used this information to start the DHARMA Initiative.
* Widmore wanted the diary because he knew both that the Hanso family was involved in some project on the Island (and he wanted to find it) and that the Black Rock wreckage had never been found. As the journal contains coordinates logged by the Black Rock crew, he believed that the journal could lead him to the Black Rock, and thus to the Island.
* He spent his fortune looking for the secret cargo of the Black Rock. Years later he sent the freighters.
* Other groups wanted the diary because they also wanted to know how to get to the Island.
* The boat was sent by one of the other groups.
* Widmore used the diary to plan his race around the world.
* Widmore's annual yacht race would be a great cover to try an explore and search for the Island. I mean, that's how Desmond got there.
* There is an unidentified, anonymous bidder ("the caller") at the action who seemingly bids against the rest, Mr Widmore included.
* The diary came into the possession of Alvar Hanso some time in the 1950's after he purchased the New World Sea Traders company from the East Ocean Trade Group, renaming it to the Allied Copenhagen Marine Merchants. The New World Sea Traders was the company owned by Alvar's great-grandfather, Magnus Hanso. This diary was in the records of the New World Sea Traders and described the Island and its powers. The dairy was evidently written by a crew member of the Black Rock, and he managed to leave the Island, possibly dying later from the effects of "time shifting". Alvar Hanso located the Island and set up the DHARMA project in order to use the Islands unique properties to aid him in research that was designed to save the world. In 1985, something happened to the project (see the blast door map) and later there was some sort of corporate "shake up" and Thomas Mittelwerk took over the project (see The Lost Experience). His intentions were not so altruistic, and his interest in the Island was for power, money and possible world domination. Mittelwerk involved Widmore Industries and a number of other companies (e.g Paik Heavy Industries) to put his plan in effect. Ben, having knowledge of the direction the DHARMA project had taken, instigated The Purge to shut down what remained of the DHARMA Project, which prevented Mittelwerk and his cronies from returning to the Island. The diary was purchased by Widmore in an effort to regain infomation needed to find the Island once more. Widmore may even be trying to divest his relationship with Mittelwerk, since In Chapter 39 of the book Bad Twin, board members of the Widmore Corporation describe fellow board-member Mittelwerk as "dangerous...ambitious and brilliantly two-faced, a man acting out an agenda all his own." Ben and the The Others know this history of the DHARMA project and these subsequent events, and they are the good guys, trying to prevent anyone from using the Island for evil purposes.
* Widmore's animosity toward Desmond is about more than just "protecting" his daughter; he is related in some way to DHARMA and knew what role Desmond has to play in the grand scheme of things.
* Miles is trying to extort $3.2M from Ben in order to go back in time and outbid Widmore for the Ledger.
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