Prime Meridian Geocoin FSU*Noles Prime Meridian Geocoin

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Released:
Friday, May 19, 2006
Origin:
Minnesota, United States
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Current Goal

To travel here, there, and everywhere - in search of good friends and great adventures!

About This Item

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This Prime Meridian Geocoin is being released into the wild, free to travel from cache to cache. It features a depiction of the Prime Meridian at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England - the location of the International Date Line, at 0 Degrees, that separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and marks Greenwich Mean Time. If you ever get a chance to visit this spot, you can stand with one foot in each Hemisphere! ;)

Interestingly, the zero meridian used by your GPSr for the WGS84 datum is about 100 meters to the East of this line. This meridian is not fixed on a point on the ground like the Prime, but uses an average of the various continental drift movements - so the datum stays where it is and the continents slide around underneath it.

I really like the design and deep relief used on this coin, and I'm hoping lots of people will get a chance to see and enjoy it. It's journey starts in Northen Minnesota, and we'll see where the winds take it from there! It's goal is simply to gather many miles, stories, and adventures as it travels - pictures are always welcome, and thanks for keeping it moving!


Fun places & things this coin has visited so far:
  • 5/30/06 - Official Launch in Northern Minnesota! (Cloquet Valley State Forest, MN) Thanks, Pear Head!
  • 7/16/06 - Event Cache! The King Boreas 1000th Hide Cache Bash!! (GCJ6BH - Fridley, MN) Thanks, jonsom!
  • 10/1/06 - Tagging along on TKHONEYMOONERS' Honeymoon! Thanks TKHONEYMOONERS, and congrats!
  • 1/14/07 - State #2: Maryland! (Edgewood, MD) Thanks, vfbofmn!
  • 1/26/07 - State #3: Florida! (Inverness, FL) Thanks, VerySmartGirl!
  • 4/21/07 - State #4: Wisconsin! (Appleton, WI) Thanks, lonesumdove!
  • 7/25/07 - Huntforit's 10-yr Wedding Anniversary celebration! (Key West, FL) Thanks, Huntforit...and CONGRATS!
  • 10/5/07 - State #5: Virginia! (Virginia Beach, VA) Thanks, VaBeachBoy!
  • 10/14/07 - Used to launch a new cache: GC16MN2 "What goes Up...Must come Down"! (First Landing State Park, VA) Thanks, crn518!
  • 5/10/08 - Event Cache! GC1B27N "WWFM III-Omaha Flash-N-Dash" in State #6: Nebraska! (Omaha, NE) Thanks, bosac!
  • 5/17/08 - Three-State roadtrip! (IA, MO, KS) Thanks, MrClean_!

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    Tracking History (9692.7mi) View Map

    Discovered It 5/10/2008 macscouter discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered at an event in Omaha.
    Discovered It 5/10/2008 ras03 discovered it   Visit Log

    discovered in the hands of hwbas04 at WWFM-III in Omaha today
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2008 hwbas04 retrieved it from WWFM III-Omaha Flash-N-Dash Nebraska   Visit Log

    Picked up this cool coin at WWFM III - Omaha today. Great Event. Will move along maybe to another state it hasn't visited.
    Dropped Off 5/10/2008 bosac placed it in WWFM III-Omaha Flash-N-Dash Nebraska - 1,032.2 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 2/25/2008 bosac retrieved it from En belysning i skogen (A Puzzle Hybrid) Virginia   Visit Log

    Awesome coin. Maybe one of these days I might actually visit this place, but then again maybe not. HAHA. I'll move it on soon after we get back to Nebraska. We're just in Virginia for the mother-in-laws wedding. There's another event to add to the coins list of events.
    Dropped Off 12/2/2007 MapheadMike placed it in En belysning i skogen (A Puzzle Hybrid) Virginia - 95.6 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/18/2007 MapheadMike retrieved it from ECUSA Welcomes You # 8A - St Aidan's Virginia   Visit Log

    I might get it into another state, or I might just move it to a different cache. Nice coin, thanks for releasing it.
    Dropped Off 10/27/2007 UPST8 placed it in ECUSA Welcomes You # 8A - St Aidan's Virginia - 5.22 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/23/2007 UPST8 retrieved it from Stump Face Virginia   Visit Log

    My second time with this coin and I still love it!! Will drop soon for others to enjoy.
    Dropped Off 10/21/2007 Episcodad placed it in Stump Face Virginia - 10.75 miles  Visit Log
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