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NL Who's Who #6 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/20/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

NL Who's Who is a series of seventeen caches dedicated to famous/important people from Newfoundland and Labrador. Each of the caches will require you to do a little bit of research on a particular person or group of individuals in order to obtain the final coordinates for that particular cache. The caches are all relatively easy finds and are all located on Bell Island.

NL Who's Who #6 is dedicated to Wayne Johnston, who is a novelist/author known for his tales of historic Newfoundland.

The coordinates listed above are false, go there and you will find nothing but the Atlantic Ocean.

The final coordinates for this cache are as follows:

N 47 AB.CDE W 052 VW.XYZ

Where:

AB = Wayne Johnston published his first book when he was _ _ years old. Add 10 to this number.
CD = He was born on May _ _, 1958. Subtract 6 from this number.
E = _ of his books have been either short listed or long listed for the Giller Prize. Subtract 1 from this number.

V = His book of short stories entitled "Catechisms" was published in 200_.
W = He won the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 19_1.
XYZ = # of pages in 'The Story of Bobby O'Malley" + # of page in "The Divine Ryans" + 44.

The container is a Green Micro and should not be hard to located once in the correct area.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lryybj

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)