The Lone Pine was a solitary tree on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, which marked the site of the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915.
In April 1915 a single pine tree was growing on the site and the Australians called it 'Lonesome Pine'. The tree was destroyed in the early fighting but seeds from a pine cone sent back to Australia from the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine, Gallipoli and were used to generate the Lone Pine tree planted at the Australian War Memorial.
Today the Lone Pine is anything but a lonesome pine.
Thousands of trees have been cultivated from the Australian War Memorial's Lone Pine and planted all over Australia.
The government-owned Yarralumla Nursery began propagating from seed and grafts in the 1940s.
"As the Anzac history became more significant, the demand for the Lone Pine seedlings became greater," Yarralumla Nursery's Farley Hayward said.
At the Nelson Cemetery there is a Lone Pine to commemorate the centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli.
On the plaque in front of the pine you can get the anwers to calculate the co-ordinates to the final cache location within a short walk from here. Do Not use the writing under CCAV in your calculations.
S 38 02.ABC E 141 00.XYZ
A = How Many Z's?
B = Add the last 2 digits of the year together.
C = Add the number of letters in the 2nd & 3rd word on the first line together.
X = Number of letters in the 3rd word on the 2nd line.
Y = Number of letters in the month.
Z = Number of letters in the 1st word on the 4th line.