The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Multi-Cache
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
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Located in Hazelwood Park. Terrain is flat,
playground, BBQ facilities and public swimming pool nearby.
The Gallipoli "Lone Pine" has become a piece of
living history in Australia. Every Australian soldier who served at
Gallipoli knew Plateau 400 or "Lone Pine" - the scene of some of
the fiercest hand-to-hand combat by Australians in World War
One.
The Plateau was distinguished by a solitary lone
pine which bore silent witness to the heroism and tenacity of
Australians who fought there. It was a heavily fortified Turkish
trench position identified by a solitary Pinus Halepensis species
Brutia commonly known as an "Aleppo Pine". The tree was named
"Lonesome Pine" after a popular song of that era called "The Trail
of the Lonesome Pine".
This position was attacked and captured by the
Australians at great loss of life and then defended against many
counter attacks by the Turks. It was eventually abandoned when the
Gallipoli beach was evacuated but by then the lone Pine was
destroyed. Luckily some of it's cones were taken back to Australia
and after many years 4 trees were propagated from seeds. On the
11th June 1933, the second tree was planted with full military
honours by S.G. Savige of the 24th Battalion at the Shrine of
Remembrance in Melbourne where it now shades the well-loved statue
of Simpson and his donkey.
In 1964 Legatee Tom Griffiths, then President of
Warrnambool Legacy, put forward the idea that more seedlings should
be raised in the Jubilee Year of Gallipoli from the tree at the
shrine with the object of planting memorial trees throughout
Australia in memory of those who fell in action at Lone Pine in
1915. And in this park is one of those tree's, a grand-child of
that famous tree. One of it's siblings is planted back at Galipoli,
Turkey, at the Lone Pine memorial and cemetry.
The final cache is at S34 56.a(c+1)(b-1) E138
39.df(e-4). To find 'a' to 'f' you will need to locate some
bronze plaques around the park and find some dates on them.One
digit from some of the dates is used to form the final
location.
What year was the Memorial Avenue of gum trees
planted? 192a
What year did Bill Potts serve until?
19b2
What year was this lonely pine planted here?
196c
What year did the Clark family start living at
'Hazelwood'? 185d
What year was the obelisk re-erected?
19ee.
On the plaques found for the first 5 clues a
certain digit can't be seen. Add 4 to it to get f.
Cache is a well hidden black 1 litre container. Muggles will be a
issue so please post scouts!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur Cvar vf arne gur Boryvfx.
Svany vf va n gerr.