MMS.47 - Grand Island Rear Lighthouse Mystery Cache

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Goldfinch: This series has been a lot of fun for me and many others. But now it is time for this Geo-Art to be retired. The area is nor open for something new. Looking forward to seeing what someone will use this area for in the furture. Thanks goes out to everyone that found the caches.
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Hidden : 4/18/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

"MMS"
Michigan Map Series

The above coordinates are FALSE.

This cache is part of a series of caches. Please read about the series in GC5DBXQ - "Geo-Art Michigan". All information and updates to this series will be listed in the above cache.

To find the TRUE coords. determine if the statement is TRUE or FALSE.

Grand Island Rear Lighthouse
The Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located off M-28 in Munising Township, Michigan. It is also known as the Bay Furnace Rear Range Light, Christmas Rear Range Light, or End of the Road Light. The corresponding front range light was replaced in 1968; the rear range light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is no longer an active aid to navigation. The grounds only are publicly accessible, but a hike is required. The Grand Island Range Lights were lit first in 1868. The original front range light was a wooden pyramid that held a sixth-order Fresnel lens. The original rear range light was a sixth-order Fresnel lens in a wooden tower atop a frame keeper's house, 500 feet to the rear of the front range light. By 1914, these original frame structures were severely rotted, and both were replaced as part of a broader effort of replacing nearly all harbor lights with steel-framed structures. The new front range light was a 23-foot-tall iron mast. A new automated rear range light was installed 750 feet to the rear of the front range light. The new rear range light was a 64-foot tower, the upper half (painted white) of which was part of a tower originally located at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie.
True : N 44° 42.422 W 85° 19.653

False: N 44° 41.945 W 85° 19.220

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unatvat - Qrnq

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)


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