Surveyor's or Scrivener's Hut, is a small concrete store for survey plans of the new Federal Capital, is all that remains of the camp established at this site in 1909 by Charles Robert Scrivener and his surveyors. A survey of the area was undertaken to provide information to the Commonwealth, and more specifically, to provide base survey drawings for the impending design competition of Canberra.

Why is this place important?

The Hut is important because it was part of the original Federal Capital survey camp, and is one of the earliest extant Commonwealth buildings within the Federal Capital. The concrete building, with corrugated iron roof and heavy steel door, was used in the 1910 surveyor's expedition to the future capital site to store maps and other documents. It is named after Charles Scrivener, the first director of Commonwealth lands and surveys. The Hut was associated with Charles Robert Scrivener, Canberra's Surveyor, who mapped the region for the design competition for the capital. He later worked closely with Walter Burley Griffin in his preparation of the 1918 plan for Canberra.

It remains as one of the earliest Commonwealth built structures.

To claim this virtual...

Take a photo of yourself (or part of yourself), your GPSr, or your caching name with the Surveyor's Hut clearly visable in your photo, include this in your log.

Logs that do not have your photo attached as proof of visit will be subject to a please explain and will be deleted.

Virtual Rewards 3.0 - 2022-2023

This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between March 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 3.0 on the Geocaching Blog.