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Once Upon a Upotipotpon Traditional Cache

Hidden : 5/23/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The name makes me laugh every time I say it.


Upotipotpon was a very small town and is now a rural area in Victoria

The name perhaps may have been derived from Aboriginal words pootong pootong, meaning "plenty of grass". The name was used for a pastoral property taken up in 1841 between the Broken Creek and Stony Creek.

In 1911 the population was 240 and in 1933 it was 131. Today, a handful of families remain living on sheep farms (including Redwood Farm) scattered around the area.

A Post Office, Upotipotpon Station, opened around 1902, was renamed Upotipotpon around 1907 and closed in 1913.

Upotipotpon is one of the home towns listed on the Australian War Memorial in London.

Upotipotpon is now a stronghold for woodland conservation in Victoria. It has a large number of declining woodland birds, well-treed roadsides and large patches of woodland vegetation. The agricultural landscape of the area is changing, with olive and farm forestry plantations becoming prominent as well as a number of properties being managed for conservation. The area has one of the few remaining large populations of Grey-crowned Babblers in the State.

The cache is a smallish sistema with plenty of swaps, a log and pencil.

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