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It's like Bali? (Otago) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/12/2020
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


As part of the promotions for Dunedin as a staycation they put out a bunch of posters. Some locations I could recognise and others like this one below took me sometime to work out. 

 

Well I finally worked it out and had a great time at the beach. As I walked around I thought about the few things I knew about Bali and decided more research was required.

I have placed a cache near this location and now it is your turn to hunt out a location for a smiley face;

Cache can be found at S 45° 56.ABC E 170° 20.XYZ

Where;

A = In 1597, the Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived at Bali, and the Dutch East India Company was established in 1A02. 

B = In the 19B0s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, artists Miguel Covarrubias and Walter Spies, and musicologist Colin McPhee all spent time here. Their accounts of the island and its peoples created a western image of Bali as "an enchanted land of aesthetes at peace with themselves and nature".

C = Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian, Chinese, and particularly Hindu culture, beginning around the C century AD.

X =Bali was inhabited around X000 BCE by Austronesian people who migrated originally from the island of Taiwan to Southeast Asia and Oceania through Maritime Southeast Asia.

Y = If you round up the total area of Bali to the nearest Y,000km2

Z = Being just 8 degrees south of the equator, Bali has a fairly even climate all year round. Average year-round temperature stands at around 3Z °C (86 °F) with a humidity level of about 85%.... this is a bit different to being here at 45 degrees south of the equator.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

pna or ebpxl haqresbbg, lbh fubhyq or noyr gb fcbg gur bqq bar bhg jvgubhg zbivat n fvatyr ebpx. ercynpr nf sbhaq

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)