QLD State Survey Marks Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Pride of Ogres on 28-Apr-09. Waypoint GA1444

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QLD State Survey Marks

 

This is for logging the QLD State Survey Markers.

Survey markers or benchmarks are normally a small bronze disc with a serial number. But Some do not have a serial number on them. They can be found in the most surprising places, even places such as bridges, in the middle of footpaths, even on the side of monuments.

To log the find:

1. You need to post a picture of the marker with a GPS Unit beside it (if possible).

2. Please include co-ords.

3. Please write a description of where the marker is located and what is impressed on the marker as there are many different wordings on them.

4. And just for fun, give your survey marker a terrain rating to let us all know how hard it was for you to reach it.


Feel free to Log as many as you find or those that have been logged before.

I encourage all to look and log as you never know where they will pop up.

NB: I have Borrowed This Format (With Permision) From Tronador

 

 

 

 

Having this under our profile we as a family are more aware of what is around us.

We have found a lot of Survey Markers just by doing this caching thing and very much by accident or stumbling across them.

We will continue to log when and if we find them, in some cases if we have not found the cache we are looking for we have found a Survey Maker.

We encourage every one to look. does not matter if we double up. It is just good fun.

Logs

18-Aug-24
I could log a million of these.

Someone mentioned this Locationless Cache in another cache I was looking for.
This very well might be the most western PERMANENT SURVEY MARKER IN Queensland.
PM is at SE corner of bridge over the Georgina River at Camooweal
Illaga Thuwani/Georgina River Bridge.


PSM 94816

PSM WAS INSTALLED IN 2001

Cheers
 
31-May-24
Svensson Heights Bundaberg

My first one I have spotted while walking in Queensland

 
26-Jan-24
Levuka Downs Homestead Area, McKinlay, Queensland

Type - Horizontal Control Point
Elevation - 242
PID 2946287



Logging for the Cacheopoly Game
 
S27° 36.916' E153° 18.523
We found this marker in Redland Bay Qld
 
10-Jun-23
While out caching with friends - cam across this Permanent Survey Marker #79835 - not certain about the penultimate digit: it is almost obliterated by heavy machinery marks. Found at Mount Warren. and the end of Ben Lexcen Court. Very Happy
 
15-Aug-22
I found a Commemorative QLD Permanent Survey Mark (PSM). It commemorates 150 years of surveying as part of Queensland’s 150 year birthday celebrations. The Survey and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) has installed 60 permanent benchmarks across Queensland allowing the public to check the accuracy of GPS units and growing awareness of the science of surveying. There is an information board next to this mark.

Q150 Commemorative Plaque
Number: 172925
Name: Q150 Logan River
Installed: 01 October 2009
D1 / T1

Thanks for the cache Smile

 
08-Oct-21
Watawieh from Norfolk Island, South Pacific

While visiting Waymarks around Point Cartwright on the Sunshine Coast this was close to the Lighthouse
 
17-Apr-19
Out chasing a GC long lost multi within the Victory Heights Recreational Trail at Gympie and found this survey marker Smile near some very interesting historical pits.

Thanks for this fun locationless Pride of Ogres Very Happy



 
11-Sep-18
Saw this survey marker No C208 on a walk on Mt Kiangarow.
 
11-Sep-18
Heading out to do GC8B4B and we saw this Survey Marker C208.
Next question was to find out if we could log it against a GCA cache and within a few minutes, we had all the info needed.
And so our walk not only took us to a great lookout at Kiangarow and a September 2002 GC cache but also allowed us to log this GCA cache.
Probably a T1.5
 
19-Jul-18
Found on the corner of View Ave and The Esplanade in Surfers Paradise while on a walk from our accommodation to the shops.
The mark says "Permanent Survey Mark" with the number 109178.
D1 / T1.
 
21-May-18
Townsville
A commemorative survey marker on The Strand celebrating 150 years of surveying and providing spatial future in Queensland....and not just a special looking marker, a sundial as well! Don't know how many of these commemorative markers are out there, this is our second and both have been in fab locations. D1/T1.
TFTC Pride of Ogres
 
06-Dec-17
Taking an amble along the foreshore of Bramble Bay with my geo husband today. Found this survey marker. No distinguishing marks or words, just a bronze circle in the concrete. Beautiful day today, lovely day for a walk
 
06-Dec-17
Taking an amble along the foreshore of Bramble Bay with my geo husband today. Found this survey marker. No distinguishing marks or words, just a bronze circle in the concrete. Beautiful day today, lovely day for a walk
 
29-Jul-17
I found this Q150 GPS mark in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens
 
26-Jan-17
Mt Gravatt Lookout has a survey marker. You can drive right to it so there is no hard work needed.
Permanent Survey Mark...Penalty for interference 100pounds.
TFTC Clan PhoenixClan PhoenixClan Phoenix
 
18-Jan-17
I found this one while on a morning Jog in Mount Isa a couple of weeks ago. I was actually looking for a gravity station when I photographed this one
 
22-Dec-16
We visited Currumbin Rock today and stumbled across this survey marker stuck on the rock. That was a surprise!
Its number is 50397.
TFTL Pride of Ogres.
 
01-Oct-16
I found this one by accident. I was walking back from a cache in James McKane Lookout park and I stumbled over a rock and landed on my knees in soft grass. I parted the grass and saw the concrete round rundell and the Bronze PSM Marker with the number 15309. TFTL PRIDE OF OGRES Clan MinotaurVery HappyClappingDancing
 
18-Jun-16
GCA #338 Found marker no. 162473 on a trip around northern Brissy suburbs
on our 2016 winter escape trip.
Thanks,
Roostaman
 
13-Feb-16
Visiting Victoria Point, found this at the top of the stairs in the car park above the ferry to Coochie Mudlo Island
 
07-Feb-16
Survey marker on summit of Northbrook Mountain. We came in from Lawnton Rd and up along the ridge line. Quite a difficult walk to get here but the views made up for it. Getting down was much easier, following the trail past the camp ground and along the fire trail
 
03-Dec-15
Climbed up the hill and had great views out to be bay and across Tingalpa reservoir. Could hear the sounds of gunfire just over the hill at the gun range
 
24-Sep-15
This lonely marker sits amongst the weeds near the corner of Jackson Rd and Maconachie Rd in White Rock, Cairns. My last for the Cairns trip.
 
23-Sep-15
On the Southern corner of Sheridan and Spence Streets in Cairns.
 
23-Sep-15
On Hartley St Cairns, opposite the convention Centre.
 
23-Sep-15
On the opposite side of the Bruce Highway from Marker 196487, you will find another.
 
23-Sep-15
Part of the new works on the Bruce Highway. This extension comes from Sheehy Road. The marker is on top of the concrete wall between the footpath and the road.
 
23-Sep-15
North of Wangetti, overlooking Unity Reef is REX LOOKOUT. There is a Geocache hidden up the hill a touch. While looking for that, I stumbled upon this QLD SSM. My favourite for the trip, because of the luck involved in finding it.
 
21-Sep-15
Found this one on the pier...just where the land ends and the pier starts. Makes sense, I guess.
 
21-Sep-15
I love survey markers. The QLD versions are quite beautiful. I found some in the most unlikely places. I found quite a few, so I will use this one as my main log. Most are in Cairns, with one a bit further north. This one was my first. It is on the corner of APLIN and THE ESPLANADE. The Omelette on the opposite corner was sensational!
 
17-Sep-15
How old is this one?
We walk this footpath regularly and only noticed this survey mark last weekend. Clearly it's been here for years.

The metal disc states:
'Permanent Survey Mark Penalty for Interference £100'
It's number is 21324
 
05-Sep-15
I h ad just found a cache about 5 meters away and noticed this bench mark as I walked back to the geomobile. Located on top of a hill on the Yarraman range. Terrain 2. Photo of bench mark and the nearby mile marker as well to compliment each other. Bench Mark 80994 TFTC Clan MinotaurVery HappyDancing
 
19-Jul-15
Found this on way to Kingaroy from Monto. Good little park just outside Munduberra for a pit-stop and to let the geokids have a run around.

This is the first Q150 survey marker we have seen. It has the number 172896 on it.
 
22-Jun-15
We came across this Survey Marker while out caching.
The metal disc states:
'Survey Office Queensland Permanent Mark. Penalty for Interference $200'
Its number is 41818.
 
06-May-15
A Royal Australian Navy hydrographic survey marker set into the concrete pathway on Heron Island, near the "No, no don't do it" cache.
Easy to access once you're on the island. To get to the island you need to get a boat or plane ride out, and be a guest of the Resort. Well worth it though.
 
06-Apr-15
While looking for a couple of unpublished trigs on the Qld/NSW border I came across this State Survey Marker next to the water pipe 'trig' of QG51313. This has 51713 stamped into the bronze disc.
Don't deface it, or you might be up for a $200 fine Embarassed
Then went on to find Maryland trig.
 
06-Apr-15
Found the SSM #56433, beside the rabbit proof fence @ 0920, while investigating a way to a couple of trigs. Up the track I had to stop as a large branch was over the unmaintained dirt track, a lazy red-bellied black snake slithered away at that stage. While this is on the 'southern' side of the fence the mark has Queensland in it.
Definitely 'worth stopping', as I wouldn't have been able to get permission to get those trigs otherwise.
Terrain: 1.5
 
16-Mar-14
This bench mark is located at Gunnewin North of Roma Qld. There used to be a railway siding here many many years ago and all that remains now is a storage shed.
 
13-Nov-13
I had driven to a lonely grave quite close to Maryborough but out in the bush on the South side of the river to find a GC Cache GC4RX1D. I found the grave and as I was taking a photo of it I saw the PMS marker in the ground very close by.

The brass disc set in concrete and pointing North has the words permanent with the double arrow below this and the word "Bidwill" below this then the number 160353 and under this in a box QLD and below this at the base of the disc is Survey Mark. It is all visible along with the top of my GP in the photo. TFTC
 
13-Oct-13
When we saw this survey marker we had no idea what they were or how they could be of any interest to us, but took a photo anyway ... so many months later we're logging our first. This one is in Warwick and has great views over the town.
Terrain: 1
 
17-Sep-12
Spotted this rare survey marker in the Naval Base at HMAS Cairns. It's marked "Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service" and has the number "ML 087".

...edit: will upload a photo once I get back home as I can't seem to do it on my iPhone
 
27-Aug-12
Found near a GC cache, Whale Watch, near Mackay.
It is on the headland overlooking the bay, excellent views all around.
TFTC,
Roostaman
 
25-Aug-12
WanderingAus wandered by on day 88 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, making our way from Darwin towards Townsville, after stopping for a few days in Mount Isa.

After crossing the Campaspe River we swung into Campaspe River Campsite for the night. After setting up and enjoying the obligatory cup of tea I set off to investigate the bridge. I found an un-numbered QLD State Survey Mark on the northeastern abutment of the bridge. The later fitting of a guard rail which protrudes about 150mm above the marker makes it harder to spot and harder to get a good photo.

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*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Pride of Ogres
Keith
 
24-Aug-12
WanderingAus wandered by on day 87 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, making our way from Darwin towards Townsville, after stopping for a few days in Mount Isa.

As we crossed the Cloncurry River Anabranch on the way into Cloncurry I thought I spotted a Survey Marker on the edge of the bridge, so I swung off the highway, parked, and walked under the bridge to investigate. I found QLD State Survey Mark Number 94794 on the southeastern abutment of the bridge.

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*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Pride of Ogres
Keith
 
20-Aug-12
WanderingAus wandered by on day 83 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, making our way from Darwin towards Townsville, and after reaching Queensland we pulled into Camooweal for a lunch break.

I was thinking that Camooweal was in one of the verses of I've Cached Everywhere, Man, http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/I%27ve_cached_everywhere%2C_man the largest cache series hidden in Australia. As it happened I was mistaking Camooweal for Cloncurry, but having placed the cache I saw no reason not to leave it in place, so I just changed the name to GA4556 WanAus 221 - Camooweal Trollway.

Having chosen my hiding spot I emerged from the troll area to discover Permanent Survey Mark number 94816 very close to my GZ.

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Having claimed the Survey Mark for this cache I also Waymarked it as 44816 - Survey Mark - Ilaga Thuwani Bridge, Camooweal, Queensland, Australia, and also Waymarked the Bridge Date Stone a metre or so away as Ilaga Thuwani Bridge - 2002 - Camooweal, Queensland, Australia.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Pride of Ogres
Keith
 
29-Jul-12
Located this while we were looking for River Rocks cache nearby - Didnt find it but enjoyed the views and spotted this QLD survey marker - 38021 which was a bonus Smile
 
29-Jul-12
QLD survey marker 107398 .... At the top of Mt Cootha - what an amazing view and well worth the visit :0
 
06-Jul-12
QLD Marker #172881 located in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens .... a lovely location and place to visit Smile
 
03-Jul-12
QLD Commemorative Survey MArker #172927 located at the Calliope River Historical Village - a very interesting place to visit Smile
 
29-Jun-12
Found on a luch time walk just behind Suncopr Stadium
QLD Permanent State Survey Marker #101436
 
28-Jun-12
At the corner of Gouldian St and Riverside Drive in Townsville is Permanent Survey Mark number 104039.
 
22-Jun-12
We were in Limestone Park in Ipswich today when we came across one of the few Q150 Commemorative Permanent Survey Markers, in this case marker #172954. The required photo has been added to the Gallert TFTC.
 
16-Apr-12
On Gold Coast, found in the grounds around Evandale where the Council Chambers, Arts Centre and picnic grounds provide a community centre.
 
09-Apr-12
haven't been photographing these for a while but I'm back on the job now
 
02-Apr-12
Why do I come across these when I'm out on the bike and don't have my GPS with me? Brick Wall
Found at Dayboro, Qld.
 
29-Mar-12
Permanent Survey Mark 54684 found embedded into the cement between two buildings at Central Queensland University. Terrain = 1. in the middle of the path.
 
08-Mar-12
Found another QLD Survey Marker #43320 along Turbot St whilst on my way to Central train station after work. The marker was in the middle of the footpath on Turbot St and was inscribed with:

State of Queensland
Permanent Mark
43320
Penalty for interference $200

Terrain difficulty = 0:)
 
08-Mar-12
Found this QLD Survey Marker #28641 whilst on my way to Central train station after work. The marker was in the middle of the footpath on Turbot St and was inscribed with:

State of Queensland
Permanent Mark
28641
Penalty for interference $200

Terrain difficulty = 0:)
 
15-Feb-12
Driving south along the Bunya Mountains road towards Dalby you will not notice this one. I was driving North and just happened to slow down to have a look at the view and spotted the white post. the star picket has been knocked over. this Bench Mark is well off the road and there are rocks hidden in the long grass. the mark on the post is MR 29 KPI the number on the brass plate is 80142.
 
16-Jan-12
Bench mark number 191052. Was just turning off the Bunya highway near Kilkivan onto Back Snake road and saw the painted post. I thought it might have been a bench mark and I was correct. In the ground there is a concrete protection apron with a star picket or warratah, depending on what you call them in your state, driven into the ground with a metal disic with the number.
 
05-Jan-12
Was attempting a multi in the Lockyer Valley in Queensland and one of the way points was virtually right on top of the Bench Mark. There is a white painted post near the fence with the number on it as well as a concrete roundell with the top of a star picket ust protrucing from the top. In the concrete are the notations PBM 6k 17144, There is also an indication on the bitumen nearby pointint towards the marker and the marker and area have just recently been refurbished.
 
25-Dec-11
Found at the top of Mt Mee in the company of a Tree grown from the seeds of the Lone Pine.
Didn't have my gps on me as I was on my bike.
s27 03' 55.06" e152 46' 51.92"
 
20-Dec-11
Number 22928. This one is located in Biloela on the Burnett highway in the lower callide region of Queensland. in biloela to find a multi that has been my nemesis for quite awhild now. I did find it after a search. Biloela is a very well maintained and tidy town. Closest big town would be Gladstone.
 
02-Dec-11
Found this survery marker while on holiday in Noosa, taken at the Noosa Laguna Lookout.
 
01-Dec-11
Found this QLD Survey Marker #97192 whilst on my early morning walk in Brisbane. The marker was in the middle of the footpath on Turbot St and was simply inscribed with:
Permanent
97192
Survey Marker
Terrain difficulty = 0:)
 
02-Oct-11
Found with McPhan - that's my stunt GPS in his photo.
 
02-Oct-11
411. We had just done the cache Views 1 and found this on the way back to the car. The terrain rating would be a 1.5 and hopefully the picture will fill in the other details.

TFTC and an interstate marker found.
 
22-Sep-11
Q150 commemorative survey mark 172 882 Found while out caching with seirra1.

This QLD Permanent Survey Marker benchmark was installed in 2009 to commemorate 150 years of surveying as part of Queensland’s 150 year birthday celebrations.

The Survey and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) has installed 60 permanent benchmarks across Queensland allowing the public to check the accuracy of GPS units and growing awareness of the science of surveying.

Designation: 172882

Location: Riverside Parklands car park - Quay St, Bundaberg

Mark is set into the pavement at a walking entry to the car park. There is a Q150 sign to mark the location. Terrain : Easy
 
22-Sep-11
Found this survey mark in Riverside Park. At the time we didn't know that this cache was in existence, but stopped to take a photo anyway. The park runs along side the Burnett River in Bundaberg. Rated: Easy to access.
 
13-Sep-11
Found whilst looking for a nearby cache in Tin Can Bay.
 
19-Aug-11
Found this one, 128757, while walking between a couple of caches in Townsville.

Thanks for the locationless.
 
14-Aug-11
commemorative survey mark at the local university. marker number 172887
 
07-Aug-11
Found while out & around with Gunnie69 today

As we crossed road to treck down to a nearby cache spotted this little disc on the curb...

Quick stop was made on way back to car to nab the required details
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
24-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Toowoomba caching
 
19-Jul-11
Found while making a slight caching detour in Pinkenba today..

Just along the riverbank in a newly upgraded park area....
 
15-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker next to a cache while we were in Giraween National Park
 
15-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker while near the QLD and NSW border at Killarney
 
10-Jul-11
Found it while caching in the outskirts of Warwick....
 
07-Jul-11
Found today while nabbing a nearby GC cache...

Great views from up here on the Toowoomba escarpment

Unfortunately this marker has been a bit unloved and is so battered it's ID number is no longer visible
 
07-Jul-11
Miss Shifter found this one in Rockhampton when we were doing some shopping.
 
06-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker outside the The Jam Works while caching around there
 
06-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on the way to Stanthorpe while caching around there
 
06-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker at the border while caching around there
 
05-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker No. 46450 while caching in Warwick
 
05-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way to Allora to Warwick
 
04-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way from Allora to Warwick
 
04-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way from Allora to Warwick
 
03-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way home from Toowoomba
 
03-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way home from Toowoomba
 
03-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way home from Toowoomba
 
03-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way home from Toowoomba
 
03-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker on our way home from Toowoomba
 
02-Jul-11
Saw this survey marker No. 153572 while in Warwick caching