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MCC: 03 (Marsden City) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/21/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Marsden City Caches!
A collection of mystery caches around the new Marsden city.
Inspired by rosmar's Route 66 caches (great set of caches!)
Cache isn't at the posted coordinates.

Here is the new Marsden City!
Situated between One Tree Point, Marsden Cove, Marsden Point, and Ruakaka.
Made up of over 200+ plots of land for residential, commercial, industrial, business etc.
Before you go off and hunt for these caches in this new city, you'll have to ask Uncle Google about the history that surrounds Marsden City for the answers to the questions below.
When you've answered them all, you can complete the coordinates for each of the mystery Marsden City caches.

A - 1st number in the day in which Captain Cook named Ruakaka

B - 3rd number in the year in which construction of the refinery began

C - 4th number in the year in which the refinery was officially opened

D - 2nd number in the amount of berths that Marsden Cove Marina has

E - The amount of zeros in the cost of the refinery's 1973 expansion

F - 3rd number in the year in which Marsden Power Station was sold by Mighty River Power

G - The number in the month in which Captain Cook named Ruakaka

H - 2nd number in the closest state highway to Marsden City

I - The amount of named roads that make up Marsden City

J - 2nd number in the day/month/year in which the refinery was officially opened

Add your numbers you've found to the final coordinates below and hunt it down!
S35 5G.JJF
E174 2B.IEE

Checksum (last 4 digits of each) = 47

Enjoy, and as always...

Happy hunting!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onpx, obggbz

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)