The Peter Pan caches are an international grouping of
seven multi-caches. Find foreign friends and solve seven caches in
five countries across three continents.
Each Peter Pan cache is a multi-cache. The given location
is your local Peter Pan statue designed by Sir George Frampton
(1860-1928) following a commission by J M Barrie. Seven castings
were made and the statues reside in:
London (UK
GC188J7)
Liverpool (UK
GC18GZC)
St John's (Newfoundland Canada
GC1988Q)
Toronto (Canada
GC18DGA)
Brussels (Belgium)
Perth (Australia
GC183ZQ)
Camden (New Jersey - USA
GC1899C)
The London statue was erected in secret during the night and
'magically' appeared on 1st May 1912, having been originally
commissioned in 1910. There was no publicity before the statue's
arrival and on the day, Barrie placed this announcement in The
Times:
"There
is a surprise in store for the children who go to Kensington
Gardens to feed the ducks in the Serpentine this morning. Down by
the little bay on the south-western side of the tail of the
Serpentine they will find a May-day gift by Mr J.M. Barrie, a
figure of Peter Pan blowing his pipe on the stump of a tree, with
fairies and mice and squirrels all around. It is the work of Sir
George Frampton, and the bronze figure of the boy who would never
grow up is delightfully conceived."
It is said that J M Barrie was not particularly happy with the
initial design and that Belgium gained the first casting, whilst
that in London is in fact the second casting. More likely is that
the Brussels Peter Pan was Frampton's war memorial gift to Belgium
- it dates from 1924. Certainly questions were raised in the Houses
of Parliament about the appropriateness of the 1912 statue in a
Royal Park. Kensington Gardens is where J M Barrie met the boys who
were to be the basis of the Peter Pan story, and the exact location
was chosen by Barrie who himself then lived close to Kensington
Gardens. The London statue suffered damage in 1943 and in 1952 the
pipe was stolen, although quickly
replaced.
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Each cache has a small/micro/nano container not
far from the Peter Pan statue. Inside each stage one
small/micro/nano are the LONGITUDE and LATITUDE of two other Peter
Pan final stages. Find geo-friends, swop LONGS and LATS - and go
find your own final stage two cache. If any of your team of friends
with whom you have swopped Longitudes and Latitudes claim a find,
then you can also claim their (overseas) find. This gives you a
total of seven possible claimed finds.
Your log will need to name the members of your team
and Tinkerbell requires the password from the
logbook inside the final cache container. You will need to email to
members of your team the password so that they can also validly
claim the cache!
To find the Peter Pan (Brussels) stage go to the
given location where on the statue you will find two sentences, one
in French and one in Dutch. Calculate ABC as follows:
- use the value of the 3th letter (A=1, B= 2, ... Z=26) of the
only word of 7 letters that appears 2 times in the French text to
find A
- use the value of the last letter of the French text to find
B
- use the value of the 8th letter of the longest word in the Dutch
text to find C
Project a new WP at AB m and CC0,C°
Go to this point and you will find a small box with
some notes in it, with on these notes the longitude and latitude of
2 other Peter Pan final stages. Take one note, hide the stash as
you found it and be at that moment attentive for muggles! Act then
as written hereabove (by leaving a note on the cache
page).
ATTENTION: one can not approach the statue between 20 PM and 7
AM!
The stash was vandalized again and isn’t safe
anymore at the original final location, that means at the final
coordinates you received from you teammembers. It is therefore
displaced at a significant distance of 1216 m, bearing W at 252.4°,
with a shift of 0.198 minutes to the south and of 0.992 minutes to
the west.
Watch you tube video of Peter Pan:
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-ROaSD-Os"