One in a series of caches to highlight the many towns, villages, hamlets, localities and crossroads around Victoria. Based on a series of caches in South Australia, initiated by local SA cacher adelaideram. adelaideram was contacted and is happy with the series spreading its wings into Victoria.
Castlemaine is a town in west central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 123 kilometres (76 miles) northwest by road from Melbourne and about 39 kilometres (24 miles) from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. Castlemaine was named by the chief goldfield commissioner, Captain W. Wright, in honour of his Irish uncle, Viscount Castlemaine. At the 2021 census, Castlemaine had a population of 7,506.
A couple of notable persons from Castlemaine, or who stayed there for a time are:
- Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer (from Guildford, just south of Castlemaine)
- Robert O'Hara Burke, leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, stationed in Castlemaine as police superintendent 1858-1859
- Jack Ginnivan, Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club,
- Dustin Martin, Australian rules footballer for Richmond and Brownlow Medallist
- Frank McEncroe, creator of the Chiko Roll
To find the co-ords for GZ, simply solve the Jigidi puzzle below.
A Jigidi for...Castlemaine