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This multi-cache will take you to 11 waypoints around Auckland
where you will need to match waypoints with photos taken at each
waypoint. The published coordinates may or may not be a good place
to start (really, any of the 11 waypoints would be good places to
start) - you decide!
Once you have identified which waypoint matches which photo, and
eliminated the one waypoint that does not match any photo, you will
be able to calculate the coordinates of the final cache.
S 36 52.973 E 174 40.608
S 36 51.581 E 174 46.661
S 36 44.597 E 174 42.706
S 36 50.643 E 174 51.845
S 36 45.291 E 174 43.103
S 36 49.734 E 174 48.728
S 36 53.821 E 174 46.973
S 36 42.922 E 174 44.972
S 36 52.500 E 174 45.843
S 36 46.983 E 174 43.993
S 36 49.437 E 174 36.685
Listed above are 11 waypoints around Auckland (also included in
the Additional Waypoints) that you will need to visit. For 10 of
these there is a matching photo, below - you need to match each set
of coordinates with a photo, and hence with a letter from A to K,
so that the coordinates can be used in the calculations further
down the page in order to find and log the final cache.
Once you have matched the photos with the coordinates, you need
to use the calculations below to obtain the coordinates of the
final cache. In each calculation, you will take the final 5 digits
of the latitude and longitude (whole minutes and decimal minutes)
and insert them as 5 digit numbers into the equations.
To calculate the latitude of the final cache, take the last 5
digits of the latitude (S 36 xx.xxx) of each of the coordinates
matching the photos A to K, and use the following calculation to
get the last five digits of the latitude of the final cache:
A - C + D - E + F - G + H - K + J + 10
To calculate the longitude of the final cache, take the last 5
digits of the longitude (E 174 xx.xxx) of each of the coordinates
matching the photos A to K, and use the following calculation to
get the last five digits of the longitude of the final cache:
A - B + C - E + F - H + G - J + K - 70
Good luck, and if you're keen, why not check out the sister
cache, All Around Auckland - Minor.
This is a purposefully complex multi-cache intending to
take finders "all around Auckland", as the title suggests, and the
difficulty and terrain attempt to reflect that. As such it is hoped
that finders will enter into the true spirit of it, and visit all
of the waypoints, or as many as required to work out the final
coordinates.
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