CARLO GIORGIO DOMENICO ENRICO CATANI Multi-Cache
Chewinprickles: Since Ive got no chance of following up on this one any time soon I'll shut it down. Perhaps someone else might take up the location.
Thanks
CARLO GIORGIO DOMENICO ENRICO CATANI
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The life and times of :
CARLO GIORGIO DOMENICO ENRICO CATANI (1852-1918)
Apart from having a very long name he achieved a few things in his relatively short lifetime.
As Follows:
• Born 22 April 1852 at Florence, Italy where he was also educated and became a civil engineer.
• Was involved in railway construction in Italy
• Came to Australia in 1876 and within weeks joined the Department of Crown Lands & Survey as a drasftman. Later transferred to the public Works as a draftsman, then an assistant engineer and later became head of his Department.
• 1892 Drained the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp.
• 1896 Widened and improved the Yarra River upstream from Princess Bridge and planted the Elms and Oaks along Alexandra Avenue.
• Built the Roads to Aurthurs Seat, Mount Donna Buang, and opened up the Mount Buffalo Platau.
• Dammed the Eurobin Creek on Mt Buffalo to form Lake Catani. Incidently my Dad rode his motorbike across this lake on the ice. (I have a photo to prove it)
• Around 1900 Catani designed and built the StKilda foreshore and the laid out the Gardens at the end of Fitzroy Street, later named the Catani Gardens.
• Catani also has a small town named after him in South Gippsland.
If you’d like to know more a quick Google search of his name will fill in some gaps.
Now enough of the drivel. The important bit; the cache:
You’ll find it at S38 11.(630 plus Hughes)
And E146 09.(012 plus Rankin)
Or Redmond paces South
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