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Travel GPS Geocoin

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Owner:
carpediem10 Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Origin:
Saskatchewan, Canada
Recently Spotted:
In 1. Cacher-Stammtisch München SüdOst

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Current Goal

My mission is to travel to Greenwich, England and be dropped into one of the many caches near Greenwich Park and have my picture taken at the Royal Observatory!

About This Item

Navigation amelioration

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation. Astronomers have used the Royal Observatory as a basis for measurement. The Prime Meridian passes through the Observatory, it is the line which longitude is determined at 0 degrees!  Around the world there were several different starting points of geographical coordinates, but when they all came together with one joint measurement system there was discrepancies of where the prime meridian lay. England's original prime meridian lay at  W 0°00'0.00 and after the change to the new system they discovered it was out 102.5 meters to the east making the actual surveyed line at the observatory at W 0°00'05.31

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) also started here!

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Tracking History (33128.6mi) View Map

Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to From Guadalcanal to Isarkanal Solomon Islands - 9,196.46 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Flossrutsche Bayern, Germany - 9.16 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Gib Römern eine Schanze Bayern, Germany - 1.35 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Fliegende Dragln Bayern, Germany - 2.82 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Wo ist mein Fuffi? Bayern, Germany - .62 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Never Rain Bayern, Germany - 3.99 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/30/2016 hempel66 took it to Das überflüssige Bushäuserl Bayern, Germany - 2.72 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/21/2016 hempel66 took it to oids Wasserwerk Bayern, Germany - 2.63 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/17/2016 hempel66 took it to Ein schattiges Plätzchen Bayern, Germany - 5.69 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/17/2016 hempel66 took it to Raststation Seeblick Bayern, Germany - 1.65 miles  Visit Log
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