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Botanical Gardens Timaru (South Canterbury) Multi-cache

This cache has been archived.

Trigger_Fish: Time to let someone else place a cache in this area.
I'll pick up the remains when I next pass through Timaru.

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Hidden : 5/13/2004
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The co-ordinates given are for the Timaru War Memorial, on the edge of the Botanical Gardens. To complete the cache you'll need to find a number of monuments in the gardens and use digits from the dates of the events that they commemorate to construct the final cache coordinates.

The final cache location is;
S44.ab.c(2 digits)d
E171.e(2 digits).fab

Where;
a is the last digit of the number obtained by adding together the 4 digits of the year in which the event commemorated by the bandstand occured.
b is a x 2.
c (2 digits) is the last 2 digits of the year in which the park was established.
d is the 2 digits of the month in which the memorial wall (at the war memorial) was unveiled minus the 2 digits of the day on which it was unveiled.
e (2 digits) The monument to Queen Victoria marked this year of her reign - 35 (ie: subtract 35 from the number of years).
f is the last digit of the year in which the Robbie Burns memorial was unveiled.

The cache is camo painted
Original Contents;
Logbook and pencil
Avon samples
Hair clips
Dinosaur toy
Lizard toy

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abegurea raq bs gur bowrpg ng gur svany pbbeqvangrf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)