Travel Octant Geocoin Alaska Octant

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Owner:
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Released:
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Origin:
Arizona, United States
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We want to visit as many cool places as we can before going to Alaska and then heading back to our home at Lone Cactus Water Tank in Phoenix, AZ.  Please take pictures of the places and people that we visit.    TFTFSL!!!!!

About This Item

Alaska Octant

This tag is small enough to fit in match containers and 35mm containers, and large enough to be seen in big geocaches.

The octant was developed prior to the sextant. The reflecting octant was first developed by Isaac Newton in 1699, but did not reach the public until the mid 1700s after further development by Edmond Halley. The reflective octant used a split mirror and was far more accurate than previous instruments since it allowed accurate readings while at sea on a tossing ship. The split mirror could bring the sun (or star) and horizon into the navigator’s view at the same time with practically no optical parallax. It was also the first instrument that could be used during both night a day.

Being one- eighth of a circle, the octant could not measure greater than 90 degrees. Therefore, the octant became almost obsolete once the sextant was developed. There were several navigators who continued to use both the octant and sextant together until the late 1800s.

 

  • Measures 33.5mm tall with a 3.5” long chain

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Tracking History (6693.2mi) View Map

Dropped Off 10/26/2014 MrsNielsen placed it in Baseline Trail - #11 - The Eastern Limit Arizona - 21.81 miles  Visit Log

Its new home among the Estrella mountains
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/29/2013 MrsNielsen retrieved it from Wheres Tonto? Arizona   Visit Log

It's on the road again!

Write note 12/13/2013 SylverWinged posted a note for it   Visit Log

Ran into this travel octant tag again, this time in "Where's Tonto?" - wanted to trade out for it but my TBs were too large for the cache this time around. Happy travels! :-)
Dropped Off 12/6/2013 PiRoySqrd placed it in Wheres Tonto? Arizona - 6.57 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/30/2013 PiRoySqrd retrieved it from Quazimoto is that you? Arizona   Visit Log

Cool lil doo-hickey, learned something new.
Dropped Off 11/16/2013 LukeSheppeard placed it in Quazimoto is that you? Arizona - .35 miles  Visit Log

Cool lil guy!!!
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/7/2013 LukeSheppeard retrieved it from Deadend Arizona   Visit Log

awesome it will travel!!!!
Dropped Off 11/6/2013 The Goggled Crusaders placed it in Deadend Arizona - 15.58 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/6/2013 The Goggled Crusaders took it to craic Arizona   Visit Log
Visited 11/6/2013 The Goggled Crusaders took it to craic Arizona - .39 miles  Visit Log
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