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You find yourself at Guy Menzies Reserve in Drummoyne, named after the pioneering aviator who was the first person to complete a solo trans-Tasman flight from Sydney to the West Coast of New Zealand on 7 January 1931.
In a straight line that distance is 1,224 miles (1,969 km), so a little more than the 1000 miles of the cache name. Menzies took somewhere around 12 hours to make the flight (the official time is disputed) and this still broke Kingsford-Smith and Ulm's time by 2.5 hours.
In keeping with my Australian music naming theme, this cache takes its name from the Hoodoo Gurus song "1000 miles away" released in 1991 and appears on the album Kinky. Here's the YouTube link to the song to get you singing it in your head while you are looking for GZ.
Finding GZ
The cache can be found by making some observations and then projecting where to go.
A - Letter in the 12 o'clock position. Keep first digit, discard the second.
B - Last number on the plaque. First digit of that number.
C - City of Canada ___ Council.
D - How many hours in the air? Add 2 digits together.
E - Last two digits in the year that he joined the Royal Air Force.
Use this information in the format shown below.
Bearing: ABC
Distance: DE
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