Gauteng West Rand Black Eagle GeoArt Series
Welcome to the West Rand, Gauteng!
The West Rand geocaching community is very proud to present BLACK EAGLE GEOART, the only GeoArt series to date in South Africa depicting the rare Black Eagle!
Apart from its rich cultural history, the West Rand in Gauteng, South Africa is also home to an extremely active geocaching community. The West Rand geocachers are a social bunch and meet at least once every month to share stories, swap experiences and trackables and enjoy each other's company.
We hope you will enjoy exploring the beauty of the West Rand, Gauteng!
The cache is not at the listed coordinates. In order to obtain the final coordinates, you will have to solve the puzzle:
How many of the following IT acronyms could you expand without Google's assitance?
| 1. RAM |
2. HDMI |
3. SMTP |
| 4. HTML |
5. GPRS |
6. PAN |
| 7. USB |
8. GIGO |
9. UPS |
| 10. IM |
11. AUP |
12. Mbps |
After being enlightened, let's get to the final coordinates of this cache:
Make use of the following cipher and the meanings of the above acronyms as follows:
Each digit in the final coordinates can be calculated by getting the letter from a word in the acronym and writing down the number that corresponds to the letter according to its position in the alphabet.
Example:
Acronym 13: CPU = Central Processing Unit and you need A13W2L6 (6th letter of second word of acronym 13) you will get an 's' which is the 19th letter in the alphabet.
The cache can be found at:
S 26° 0[A7W3L1].[A1W2L3][A11W1L2 - A5W4L6][A2W2L8 * A10W2L2 - A4W1L9]
E027° [A11W3L6 - A9W3L2][A3W2L2].[A12W1L6 - A6W1L7][A8W1L5][A8W3L6]
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.