Tämä on haastekätkö, joka haastaa Sinut etsimään kätköjä ympäri Eurooppaa eri maiden pääkaupungeista.
This is a challenge cache that challenges You to find caches around the Europe from different capital cities.
Haasteen ehdot:
Logataksesi kätkön nettiin, sinun tulee olla löytänyt vähintään yksi kätkö *kahdenkymmenen* eri Euroopan maan(*) pääkaupungista(**). Tässä haasteessa lasketaan siis kuinka monesta eri maasta, alla nimetyiltä alueilta, olet kätköjä löytänyt.
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*) Maan määritelmä seuraa geocaching.com:n määritelmää (eli mm. Ahvenanmaa on oma maansa). Tässä haasteessa Euroopan maiksi katsotaan kuuluviksi myös Euroopan ja Aasian rajalla olevat valtiot ja ns. poliittiseen Eurooppaan kuuluvat maat.
Hyväksyttäviä maita on yhteensä 58 kpl:
Aland Islands, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sark, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Vatican City State
**) Pääkaupunki määritellään seuraavasti: Suurimmassa osassa maita pääkaupungiksi tulkitaan se kunta (geocaching.com:n "county"), jossa pääkaupunki sijaitsee. Maissa, joista geocaching.com:ssa ei ole kuntatietoa, pääkaupungiksi tulkitaan se maakunta (geocaching.com:n "region"), jossa pääkaupunki sijaitsee. Maissa, joilla on useampi pääkaupunki, tai joiden pääkaupunki sijaitsee useamman kunnan alueella, pääkaupungiksi hyväksytään mikä tahansa listatuista vaihtoehdoista.
Alla täsmällinen lista kunnista ja alueista (maa sulkeissa), joista löytynyt kätkö kelpaa haasteeseen:
kunnat (county):
Mariehamn (Aland Islands), Tiranës (Albania), Yerevan (Armenia), Wien (Austria), Baku City (Azerbaijan), Minsk (Belarus),Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel (Belgium), Sarajevo Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sofia City (Bulgaria), Zagreb (Croatia), Nicosia (Cyprus), Hlavní město Praha (Czechia), København (Denmark), Tallinn (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France), Tbilisi (Georgia), Berlin (Germany), Central Athens (Greece), Sermersooq (Greenland), St Peter Port (Guernsey), Budapest (Hungary), Reykjavik (Iceland), Dublin (Ireland), Douglas (Isle of Man), Roma Capitale (Italy), Rīga (Latvia), Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Vilniaus miesto (Lithuania), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Centar (North Macedonia), Valletta (Malta), Monaco-Ville (Monaco),Glavni grad Podgorica (Montenegro), Prijestolnica Cetinje (Montenegro), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Den Haag (Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Warszawa (Poland), Lisboa (Portugal), Municipiul București (Romania), Moscow (Russia), Città di San Marino (San Marino), City of Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava I (Slovakia), Bratislava II (Slovakia), Bratislava III (Slovakia), Bratislava IV (Slovakia), Bratislava V (Slovakia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Comunidad de Madrid (Spain), Stockholm (Sweden), Bern (Switzerland), Kyiv (Ukraine), City of London (United Kingdom), Greater London (United Kingdom), Ankara (Türkiye)
maakunnat (region):
Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Streymoyar (Faroe Islands), Gibraltar (Gibraltar), St. Helier (Jersey), Chișinău (Moldova), Sark (Sark), Svalbard (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands), Civitas Vaticana (Vatican City State)
Alla oleva tsekkeri kertoo monenko maan pääkaupungista olet kätköjä löytänyt:

Kätkön sijainti:
Kätkö on PET-putkilo ja sijaitsee Espoon kaupungin ulkoilusaaressa, jonne pääsee reittiveneellä. Kätkö on piilossa korkean männyn oksalla ja tarvitset tätä varten n. 8m ongen.
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Challenge criteria:
In order to log this cache as "Found" to geocaching.com, you must have found at least twenty geocaches, each from a different European(*) country and from different capital area(**). Therefore, this challenge calculates the total number of different countries from which you have finds from the any of the areas listed below.
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(*) Definition of country follows geocaching.com specification for countries (e.g. Aland Islands is a separate country). In this challenge, countries that are transcontinental or part of "political Europe" are also considered as European countries.
The list of accepted countries (total 58) are:
Aland Islands, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sark, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Vatican City State
(**) Definition of capital area: in most countries the county in which the capital city is located is used as capital area. For countries that do not have county information in geocaching.com, the region in which the capital city is located is used. For countries that have more than one capital city and for counties where the capital city spans over many counties, any of counties listed below is accepted.
Below is the listing of all counties & regions (with country) that are accepted in this challenge.
Counties:
Mariehamn (Aland Islands), Tiranës (Albania), Yerevan (Armenia), Wien (Austria), Baku City (Azerbaijan), Minsk (Belarus),Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel (Belgium), Sarajevo Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sofia City (Bulgaria), Zagreb (Croatia), Nicosia (Cyprus), Hlavní město Praha (Czechia), København (Denmark), Tallinn (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France), Tbilisi (Georgia), Berlin (Germany), Central Athens (Greece), Sermersooq (Greenland), St Peter Port (Guernsey), Budapest (Hungary), Reykjavik (Iceland), Dublin (Ireland), Douglas (Isle of Man), Roma Capitale (Italy), Rīga (Latvia), Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Vilniaus miesto (Lithuania), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Centar (North Macedonia), Valletta (Malta), Monaco-Ville (Monaco),Glavni grad Podgorica (Montenegro), Prijestolnica Cetinje (Montenegro), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Den Haag (Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Warszawa (Poland), Lisboa (Portugal), Municipiul București (Romania), Moscow (Russia), Città di San Marino (San Marino), City of Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava I (Slovakia), Bratislava II (Slovakia), Bratislava III (Slovakia), Bratislava IV (Slovakia), Bratislava V (Slovakia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Comunidad de Madrid (Spain), Stockholm (Sweden), Bern (Switzerland), Kyiv (Ukraine), City of London (United Kingdom), Greater London (United Kingdom), Ankara (Türkiye)
Regions:
Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Streymoyar (Faroe Islands), Gibraltar (Gibraltar), St. Helier (Jersey), Chișinău (Moldova), Sark (Sark), Svalbard (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands),Civitas Vaticana (Vatican City State)
Below checker will tell you from how many different countries from capital areas you have found caches:

Cache location:
Cache is PET and is located in recreational island owned by Espoo. You may use the scheduled archipelago boats to get into the island.
This cache hangs from a pine tree and you will need approx. 8m long fishing rod to retrieve it.

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Taustakuva/background image - origin: Wikimedia, user: Dbachmann - license: CC BY-SA 3.0,
Ylläoleva kuva/above picture: origin Wikimedia, User:San Jose - license: CC BY-SA 3.0