ICEM - Captains Flat Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia
By Sol de Lune on 07-Dec-19. Waypoint GA13055

ICEM - Captains Flat.

This cache is part of the I've Cached Everywhere, Man (ICEM) project, a series of Geocaching Australia caches in Australia.   The series had it's first airing in 2011 and in 2018 Geocching Australia started promoting the series again in the hope the number of caches in the series can be increased. 

The series is made up of the locations made famous by Lucky Star in the song "I've been everywhere" in 1962, lyrics by Geoff Mack.

Captains Flat is a town in the Southern Tablelands of rural New South Wales, Australia, in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. It is south of Queanbeyan. Captains Flat township is bounded by the non-urban parts of the locality of Captains Flat in the north, east and west, and Captains Flat Road, the Molonglo River and Foxlow Street in the south.

History

The area was originally inhabited by Ngarigo Aboriginal people prior to European settlement. The town formed as a result of mining for gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper and iron pyrites in the hills surrounding the upper reaches of the Molonglo River. The town boomed from 1881 to 1899 then went into a rapid decline until 1939 when rail access revived mining activity for another 23 years.

Notable people from Captains Flat

Tom Wills (1835–1880), Australia's first great cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football

Ivy Weber (1892-1976), first woman elected at a general election in Victoria, and the first woman in Australia to win a seat as an independent.

Verse 4 

Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat,

Canberra, Milperra, Unanderra, Captain's Flat,

Cloncurry, River Murray, Kurri Kurri, Girraween,

Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen,

Bendigo, Dorrigo, Bangalow, Indooroopilly,

Kirribilli, Yeerongpilly, Wollondilly, don't be silly.

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