This
"secondary cache" can only be found with international team
working because:
This cache is
just one cache of a set of 24 caches named "IMC No. 4 …" (IMC =
International Multi-Cache) dedicated to the theme Fire, one of the
four basic elements of Earth. These caches are hidden in 12
countries around the world:
Australia
[AU], Canada [CA],
Chile [CL], Czek Republic [CZ], Deutchland [DE], Spain [ES], Nederlands
[NL], New Zealand [NZ],
Portugal [PT], Singapore [SG], Thailand [TH] and South Africa [ZA]
In each country
there is a "primary cache" and a "secondary cache".
The 12 primary caches are named "IMC No. 4
P-x - yyy" and the nn secondary caches "IMC No. 4 S-x - zzz" where
x is the country code given above and yyy and zzz can be any
additional name.
The primary
caches are almost like traditional caches. The only difference is,
that they contain beside the "normal" content (stash-note, logbook,
pencil, give-aways) a "lists of hints" for the secondary
caches.
To be able to
search and find a secondary cache you need all hints from
all 12 primary caches!
As the primary
caches are scattered all over the world it will either require a
lot of travelling or - and that is the intention of the IMC No. 4 -
international cooperation:
If you want to
find this secondary cache, you should:
1. Find a primary IMC No. 4 cache.
2. Contact finders of other primary IMC No. 4 caches and exchange
the hints.
3. Puzzle the hints together and …
4. … go and seek the secondary cache.
The IMC No. 4
team wish you good luck!
Once obtained all the
hints, they will have to be ordained and to resolve into the
following form:
Latitude:
[AU] [CA] (space) [CL] [CZ].287
Longitude: [DE] [ES] [NL] [NZ] (space) [PT]
[SG minus one] . [TH] [ZA]
Table with links to all 24 IMC
caches
About
the place of this Secondary Cache:
Easter Island is located in the
oriental end of the Polynesian area, in the South Pacific Ocean, in
the Latitude 27° 9' South, and the Longitude 109° 27' West. It is
to 3.700 km from the coast of Mainland Chile and 2.600 km of
Mangareva in the Gambier Islands. This location confers it the
characteristic of being one of the isolated inhabited insular lands
in the world.
The island has a triangular form with an approximate surface of
16.600 hectares, each one of its sides possesses a distance of 16,
17 and 24 km respectively, being the maximum width of the island 12
km.
Easter Island is a volcanic
island of oceanic type, of recent age, structured by a complex
cycle eruptive that culminated with the development of several
eruptive centers, those that, associated to the erosive processes
of the sea, they gave him the morphological features that today
presents.
It fits to point out that Easter
Island, inside the global context of the tectonic plates, is bound
to a line of high caloric flow, well-known as "Easter Hot Line"
that cuts the ocean Pacific to the latitude of 27° S approximately.
Also, they form this line other volcanic islands as Salas and
Gómez, San Félix and San Ambrosio, the island Pitcairn toward the
West of the line of the Pacific and numerous submarine volcanos
that give continuity to this "hot line" toward the West.
The volcanic triangle constituted by Island of Easter rises to
about 3.000 mt on the oceanic bottom, and its oceanic base has
trapezoidal form, reaching dimensions of 130 km x 90 km x 60 km x
100 km, approximately; that is to say, their basal surface is
almost 50 times superior to the surface of the island and given its
slope, its body structures a typical oceanic volcanic shield.
Easter Island is formed, in general features, for three main
volcanic centers: Poike, Rano Kau and Terevaka. Recent studies
demonstrate the difference and complexity of the volcanic processes
that have structured these centers, being the Poike that of simpler
evolution and, in turn, the oldest, as they reveal it the ages
absolute potassium-argon that oscillate among 3 million years and
less than 300 thousand years. The Rano Kau follows whose activity
is relatively contemporary with that of the Poike; their ages
oscillate between 2,56 million years and 180 thousand years ago but
contrary to the Poike it presents a more complex final phase,
characterized by sourrer eruptions (rich in silica). it Suffered
violent eruptions that culminated with the explosion that generated
the collapse of the central cone, giving origin to the formation of
the crater that today can be observed.
On the other hand, the Terevaka is the product of multiple
eruptions Icelandic type that they control two systems of fractures
of approximate direction N - S, from Hanga Roa until Puna Pau. It
is considered that their last eruptive activity happened between 10
thousand and 12 thousand years ago, corresponding to the flow of
lava of Hiva Hiva, in the Roiho area. Other structures secondary
volcanic exist in each one of these centers, as the eruptive line
from Orito Mount To the Te Manavai crater, going by the the Rano
Kau crater toward the Motu Kao Kao, Motu-Iti and Motu-Nui (3 small
island in front of Orongo) and probably toward other submarine
volcanic structures, to the SW of the island. Without a doubt this
line controls the domes traquitic of the Poike and the cone of
volcanic tuff in Rano Raraku. (www.florarapanui.org)
Don't forget: "Cache in, Trash
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