Eyrie Traditional Cache
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This cache has been placed to give geocachers a different perspective of a local landmark. The cache is a clip top box. From the nearest car park, you will need to walk approximately 400 metres along the beach, which is accessible at high tide.
This location is very special in Australian palaeontology - it is where the very first Australian dinosaur bone was found. The single terminal toe bone was discovered in 1903 at Eagles Nest, near Inverloch, Victoria, by geologist, W.H. Ferguson. This carnivorous dinosaur specimen is referred to as the Cape Paterson Claw.
William Hamilton Ferguson was a Mines Department of Victoria geologist who was searching for coal along the coast near the town of Inverloch in 1903. He possessed an uncanny knack for finding fossils where others could locate none. This is exactly what he did on the coast at a place immediately west of a prominent rock stack called Eagle's Nest. There he discovered and collected an isolated toe bone of a carnivorous dinosaur, the first dinosaur bone found in Australia to be described in a scientific paper.
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Haqre ynetr Onaxfvn Zna.
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