EDIT: 9/10/25 - Final coordinates updated based from feedback from first few finders. Apologies to those who have already solved it. Use Certitude to get new coordinates, or add +008 to both South and East. Or using the hint will help narrow down your search!
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A series of caches exploring the origins behind the names of towns, streets, rivers, regions, and more. Each puzzle will ask you a question — enter the correct answer into Certitude to gain the final coordinates.
Name Origins: Kersbrook
The first settlers established farms in the Kersbrook area in the early 1830s due to its relatively gentle slopes. John Bowden, manager of the South Australian Company's dairy farm at Hackney, bought the 32-hectare (79-acre) section 6146, Hundred of Para Wirra, and named it Kersbrook after the Cornish farm where he was born. By 1844, Bowden was recorded as having "800 sheep, 62 cattle, one horse, 13 pigs, 16 acres of wheat, eight acres of barley, plots of oats, maize and potatoes, and a fruit garden".
The settlement itself was created by William Carman, a blacksmith working at a copper mine near Williamstown, who took advantage of the area's location on the busy road to the Barossa Valley. In 1851 Carman built the Wheatsheaf Inn on a subdivision of section 5519 of the Hundred of Para Wirra. By 1858, some settlers had arrived and Carman gave some of his land to build a town. In 1917 the town was officially renamed to Kersbrook as this was the name used by local residents and referred to the original 'Kersbrook' farm of John Bowden immediately south west of the town. It became a notable agricultural area, especially for fruit.
To find the coordinates for the cache, you must find the name of this town before it was renamed 'Kersbrook'. You must then find the town which it was named after, and enter the name of the River which runs through its centre into Certitude.
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