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TWC - Who am I? Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/18/2020
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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The Whittlesea Compass attributes explanations can be found HERE

TWC - Who am I?

The cache is not at the posted coordinates. To obtain the coordinates, solve the puzzle below.

1. My name is:

During my professional life I wore many hats - I was a Parliamentarian, a Charity Worker and a Women's Rights Activist. After my husband's retirement in 1912, I intensified my public activities, and became one of WA's first female Justices of the Peace.
I was an ardent pro-conscription campaigner, and during WW 1, I started up the Soldiers' Welcome Home.
I am on one of Australia's banknotes.

The number you require is the day of my death: A =


2. My name is:

I was born on a boat in the Bay of Bengal in India. I was educated in England before the family moved to Queensland. I was married at 21 to a Queensland Station Manager. I led an adventurous life exploring an area of Northern Territory with my husband, and Ernest Favenc and his wife.
After my husband's death I married Joseph Barnett, and on a trip to NZ on the Perthshire in 1899, the propeller broke and the ship drifted for 7 weeks in the Tasman Sea before it was towed back to Sydney.
My diary is kept in the State Library of NSW and was published in 2004.

The number you require is the last number of the year of my birth: B =


3. My name is:

I was born in Tasmania and was one of the first Australian women to have a weekly column in a newspaper. I wrote several novels, all of which were decidedly feminist and also a collection of poetry.
During WW I, I became the first female war correspondent. I braved the front-line and reported for the Daily Mail and Evening News in England. I also wrote for several of the largest newspapers in the world about my experiences on the front line. I wrote a book called A Woman's Experience of War.

The number you require is the last number of my year of birth: C =

4. My name is:

I was one of Australia's first female academics. At the age of 22 I graduated with first-class honours.
Three years later I became the second woman in Sydney to finish a Master of Arts degree.
I was a founding member of Sydney University's Women's Society, and throughout my life I was a strong advocate for women's education.
I have a Memorial Prize for Classics named after me.

The number you require is the second number of the day I was born: D =

5. My name is:

I was born in Kent, England and both my parents were talented artists.
I was a children's author, an illustrator, a cartoonist. I travelled between WA and England to study art. I was known as a pioneer for female cartoonists.
I provided caricatures and cartoons and was one of the first women to draw local political cartoons.
I married a mining agent, B J O Kelly in 1919 and moved to the east coast of Australia and my house was called Nutcote.
In 1985, a postage stamp honouring me, and my best known creations, was issued by Australia Post as part of a set of five commemorating children's books.
In 1988, I had a street in the suburb of Richardson, Canberra named after me.

The number you require is the 2nd number of the day I was born, which coincidentally is also the 2nd number of the day I died: E =

6. My name is:

I was one of the early Australian aviators. I was the first woman to earn a pilot's licence in Australia - Pilot Licence No. 71 in 1927, at the age of 49.
I died by drowning in Sydney Harbour that same year, one of the victims of the Tahiti-Greycliffe Ferry disaster.
Five planes flew over my funeral and dropped a flower wreath in tribute.
In the year following my death, my sons established a perpetual trophy to be awarded each year to the best all round pilot of the Australian Aero Club of New South Wales.
My leather flying helmet is in the collection of the National Library of Australia.

The number you require is the day of my death: F =

7. My name is:

I was born in the Victorian country town of Casterton. My father was a bank manager there. My maternal grandfather was John Brown, a Scottish master builder. He designed and built the grand mansion Como House and its gardens, in Melbourne.
In 1914-16 I took lessons in drawing from Frederick McCubbin at the Melbourne Gallery School, but I then chose to study under Max Meldrum.
In 1918 my father retired and settled in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Beaumaris. I spent the rest of my life painting around these suburbs.
I died of pneumonia in a hospital at Sandringham. I am buried in the Cheltenham cemetery. In 1971 a major exhibition of my paintings was mounted at the Rosalind Humphries Galleries in Melbourne; a group of these was purchased for the National Gallery, Canberra.

The number you require is the third number of the year of my birth: G =

8. My name is:

I was born in Taringa, the third of seven children, and grew up in Coorparoo in Brisbane.
I studied at the University of Queensland and Cambridge University. My chosen fields were geology and palaeontology. While there I gained my Pilot's Licence.
For my work on corals I won a Lyell Fund award in 1940, the first Queenslander, and only the ninth Australian to do so.
During WW II, I enlisted in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, serving in the Naval Office in Brisbane.
I was the first female professor at an Australian University, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.

The number you require is the third number of the year of my birth: H =


The Co-ordinates you need for GZ are S37 2A.BCD E145.0E.FGH


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