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Nötanabben Traditional Cache

Hidden : 2/11/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Nötanabben.

Park your car at N56 08.592 E15 17.327 and have a wonderful promenade along the seaside to the old burial ground. Specially I will point out the beautiful, deep green ivy hanging in the old trees. In Swedish murgröna.

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From the cache you have to go south-east, bearing 125 degrees 248 meter, to N56 09.042 E15 18.237 to see the cholera burial ground

During the 19th century Sweden suffered from several cholera epidemis. Blekinge was relatively spared from the first cholera year in 1834. While, in the contrary, the epidemis in 1853-55 had a violent course. The number of deaths was large. A rough estimate of victims says only in the neiberhod here, ther was 3-400.

Burial was, because of the risk of contamination, not allowed to take place in ordinary cemetery, but in special, often peripheral located places, established for the cholera victims.

The symptoms’ of this very bad sickness is very intense diaharrea, muscelcramp, and “blue skin “. Dehydration and loss of antigens , resulted in death in a few days. At this time no effective medicine existed. .

Here you can see the entrance to the easterly waypoint “Cholera grave”.

Here you can also see, besides, a beautiful place, old graveyards, 1500-1000 years old.

Cache is a 1,5 liter box width log, pen and some fun stuff.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre whavcre-fgbar.

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)