If you found this page because you have been web-searching Flat Earth Society, you should bounce elsewhere (the earth is a spheroid anyway, really!). But for cachers, it will be easier to find this cache if you do assume the earth is flat. It also helps if you assume latitudes and longitudes have a 1:1 aspect ratio – i.e. one degree South is the same distance over-ground as one degree East.
Welcome to FEG: Reflection. This is my first attempt at a cache. I hope to make this the first of an FEG series to the theme of ‘stuff we were taught in school that we never thought would become useful’.
A subplot of this cache is to provide a feast for the enthusiasts of architecture. This campus has been given a progressive but stunning facelift over the years. On your way around, you will encounter some spectacular and award-winning building designs such as the Law Building, New College Village, the Red Centre, Scientia and the Tyree Building.
This cache is ideal for night-caching as this is a fairly high muggle area at peak-hours and GZ is well lit 24 x 7 (consider that a hint!).
Minimum total distance from start to cache is 1 km. You are looking for a painted 200 ml Sistema container. Please clip container securely closed before replacing.
While you’re in the area, consider visiting other geocaches on UNSW Campus.
Your geo-mission consists of the following:
Start at WP1 given by the coordinates.
At WP1:
Coordinates for WP2 is S 33° 55.ABC, E 151° 13.DEF
The building immediately to the East of you is brand new (completed February 2012) and certainly fits its role in energy technology research by providing extensive parking for bicycles. Referring only to bike-stands that are on the patio above road level:
- Number of bike-stands that is gold-plated is A.
- A single row of 11 bike-stands is split into two groups by a column. The number of bike-stands between the column and the glass door is C.
- The number of bike-stands on the southern-most row (still on the patio) is E.
The building across the road has its name etched into glass window panes. In the furthest bottom-left glass pane facing the main road (as a previous finder [thanks, morty8888] suggested, you may have to cross Anzac Parade to get a close-up view of this pane):
- Number of times the letter N appears plus the number of times the letter W appears is B.
- Number of times the word “NEW” appears is the square-root of D.
- Number of times the letter L appears multiplied by 2 is F.
At WP2:
Coordinates for WP3 is S 33° 54.GHI, E 151° 13.JKL
The building to your West has nine 'marble-looking' granite slabs with inscriptions to the right of its main entrance. In the central slab:
- The number of words (count an abbreviation or symbol as a word) on the seventh line is G.
- The number of letters in the third word on the third row is H.
- The number of times the word “Philanthropies” appear is I.
- Number of rows is J.
The number of words in the first row of the bottom left slab is K.
The last digit of the year the major donors were honoured is L.
From WP3 to GZ:
Imagine an enormous flat mirror standing upright passing all the way from WP1 to WP2. If you were standing at WP3 then GZ would be at the position of your reflection in that mirror.
FTF Honours and Sextant Geopin to Modern Nomade.
