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What Used to Be (Mid-Canterbury) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/27/2008
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is designed to take you to multiple small historical locations within Ashburton Town. This is a reincarnated cache once called "GSA Mission K1W1" so those of you who have completed this will know where all the locations are.

Locate the historical locations shown in the pictures below, once you locate each of them answer the question from the list relating to that location.

The Final cache location is;
S 43 53.ABC
E 171 44.DEF

Find the answers to the following;

The Captain was aged "ab" when he died, a+b = A
First building built here in "cdef",(e+f)-(c+d) = B
C = How many of the historic places are indicated with yellow AA signs?
This pioneer plumber/farmer was born 21 "D" 1826, D is the number of the month in the year
E = This man died at Longbeach 5th November 19E1
F = Margret Annabella was aged F when she died
http://img.geocaching.com/cache/767b802d-2ec2-42cd-afca-c4398f8a4a7e.jpg http://img.geocaching.com/cache/b938a066-004d-47b5-b8a3-eeaa490d85a0.jpg http://img.geocaching.com/cache/0978a957-22a2-480a-8dc6-83b0f5e05346.jpg> <br><br> <br> To gratuate with honors on this cache you may also choose to locate WP 5 (Only available during business hours), This WP is not pictured in the listing but a historic photo is included in the Gallery. When you find this place you must locate

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HONOR'S ROLL (including grade, based on number of attempts)

Kiwi Nomad (C)
rchdlyn (A)
BaldEd (A)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg urycf gb or gnyy. Nyy gur uvagf lbh arrq ner va gur cubgbf, lbh znl whfg arrq gb guvax nobhg jung gurl ner. Vs lbh ner fgvyy univat gebhoyr, ivfvg gur vasb prager be zhfrhz. N xabjyrqtr bs bgure pnpurf jvguva gur gbja znl nyfb or bs hfr.

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)