The 5 Corner Club.
Are you a member of The 5 Corner Club
or
aspiring to become a member.
The corners are -
Surveyor Generals Corner, intersection of WA, SA and NT.
Poeppel Corner, intersection of NT, QLD and SA.
Haddon Corner, Corner of QLD and SA.
Cameron Corner, Corner of SA, QLD and NSW.
MacCabe Corner, Corner of NSW and Vic (and SA).
SA_Parrothead has been intrigued with these Australian state border corner markers and visiting them has been a bucket list item ever since he read an article that stated more people had visited the South Pole than had been to Surveyor Generals Corner.
Visiting them remained a dream until I started Geocaching and Beaker took me on a Geocaching trip that visited two of those corners.
Thanks to him I was off and running with many more outback Geocaching adventures that have taken me to those other corners.
I visited -
Poeppel Corner and Cameron Corner with Caching teams Beaker and Mogni in April 2006.
Surveyor Generals Corner with Caching Teams Nibs, Auzee, Burtons (with Grumpy drag along) and Mystery Inc (YE) in Aug 2012.
Haddon Corner with Mrs Parrot in Oct 2014.
At that time I thought I had found all the corner markers.
However there was still one more for me to discover-
MacCabe Corner
This corner is where the borders of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria are supposed to meet. An error in calculating the line of longitude when the Vic/SA border was first surveyed was suspected in 1868 and confirmed in 1883.
The boundary was disputed by the South Australian and Victorian Governments and the matter was taken to the High Court of Australia in 1911. The issue was finally settled in 1914, when it the Privy Council ruled in favour of Victoria. Because of that decision the western boundaries of Victoria and New South Wales, which were intended to be a straight line, do not meet.
The New South Wales border is set at 141° east, some 3.6 kilometres to the east of the SA/Vic border. Both borders end at the Murray River but there is a 3.6 kilometre gap between their end points, so technically there is no place where the two borders acutally meet.
(Quoted from -http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/state-corners.html)
MacCabe Corner is named for Francis MacCabe, a surveyor who did considerable work exploring and mapping NSW, in particular the rivers of the Murray-Darling basin.
So here is you oppotunity to start your club membership or brag how many corners you have found.
The recommended route to the cache is via the river which is why the Boat attribute is shown and I took a kayak to the corner to set up this cache. You can no longer drive to this location as it is fenced off to vehicles however it is possible to hike through the Murray-Sunset National Park to get to this corner.
Logging the Cache
At GZ you will find the MacCabe Corner Marker.
In order to claim a find, simply post a picture of either your GPS or yourself up against the corner marker with your online log.
Both options are available to claim a find to respect the requirement of not having to show your face if you are not comfortable with that option.
Optionally, please tell your Corner story and how many you have discovered in your travels..
Logs not supported by the photo requested above may be subject to editing.
It is not necessary to message me first for permission to log, just post your photo with your online log.
A Virtual Reward project cache.
Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.