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Gough Island Traditional Geocache

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Zambesiboy: This cache was one of my favorites but sadly I must archive it as it has been buggled several times ( destroyed by baboons ) thanks to all who found it or attempted to. Happy caching.

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Hidden : 5/5/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   large (large)

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So if you stood at this point and had amazing vision, World Heritage Site Gough Island is some 2 700 km away - due West.




 

Gough Island is the least-disturbed major cool temperate island ecosystem in the South Atlantic, and one of the most important seabird colonies in the world. The island is scenically beautiful with spectacular sea cliffs round much of the coastline. Two endemic landbirds are found: the Gough moorhen and the Gough finch. Gough is in the Tristan da Cunha Priority One Endemic Bird Area, as defined by BirdLife International. Its undisturbed nature makes it particularly valuable for biological research, which, with weather monitoring, is the only other activity permitted on the island.

 

Gough Island rises to heights of over 900 m or above sea level. Its area is 91 km2 according to the South African Antarctic Programme.
The Topographic features include the highest Peak,
Edinburgh Peak, Hags Tooth, Mount Rowett, Sea Elephant Bay, Quest Bay, and Hawkins Bay.


It includes small satellite islands and rocks such as Southwest Island, Saddle Island on South, Tristiana Rock, Isolda Rock West, Round Island, Cone Island, Lot's Wife, Church Rock or North, Penguin Island on Northeast, and The Admirals on East. It is a remote and lonely place, about 400 kilometres southeast of the other islands in the Tristan da Cunha group, 2,700 kilometres from Cape Town, and over 3,200 kilometres from the nearest point of South America.

Wikipedia gives much information on the
Island and its wildlife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island

Since I cannot have the pleasure of placing a cache on Gough Island I decided to place one at the nearest applicable point which is here.
Looking at the steepness of the mountains rising from the sea which forms Gough Island, I am not sure that our terrain rating possibility of 5 stars is sufficient!

FTF congratulations go to adilawson

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)