THE CACHE IS LOCATED AT THE LISTED COORDINATES
Inspired by GC59480 - MaxB’s Golden Spike Contiguous County Challenge in the US, it is time for an Australian version.
You will eventually be able to sign a cache whichever direction and State you travel to/from to complete the Challenge.
The first in the series is: GC8050T - Indian-Pacific Challenge - East(This cache)
The second in the series is: GC81MD2 - Indian-Pacific Challenge - North-East
The third in the series is : GC8E87R - Indian-Pacific Challenge - West
The fourth in the series is: GC8JKC5 - Indian-Pacific Challenge - South-East
The Challenge is to find at least one cache in a Contiguous (adjacent) set of Australia shires / counties / councils connecting the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The terminus counties may be anywhere along the respective ocean. (Not up rivers that empty into the ocean). The route may meander along any route, as long as the counties along the route are all connected (adjacent) . You do not have to find the counties in any specific order (i.e. east to west, west to east, or even consecutively with each other.), but you must not have a gap between counties along the route.
All past cache finds count (except locationless). You can document this by capturing your Australian County Map statistics using the Project-GC Checker:
Some clarification points:
- Adjacent counties are those, which share a land border with the next county in your string.
- Counties, which meet solely corner to corner, are NOT adjacent. (However if there is some stretch of common border they are adjacent even if there is not a road along that stretch.)
- Counties separated by a river are considered adjacent, even though there is not a bridge across the river between the counties.