304-39_Drouin West PM 5 Longwarry North, Victoria, Australia
By
darsenator on 19-Aug-16. Waypoint TP7423
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S38° 4.927' E145° 46.276' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 392238E 5784361N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 49 m |
| Local Government Area: | Baw Baw |
/145.771267,-38.082117,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
This permanent-marker has the numbers 304-39 engraved so hence the name.
This is a family friendly drive to trig.
Look for a metal-pole with an orange tip to locate the marker
<Driving Instructions>
Drive along "Princess Way"
Turn into "Potter Rd" and park on the road side.
Using the web-based "Survey Marks Enquiry Service (SMES)", the mark and alternate-names have being acquired.
The official name for this cache is "304-39_Drouin West PM 5".
Dated: 25/05/1950
Hints
Ybbx sbe n zrgny-cbyr jvgu na benatr gvc gb ybpngr gur znexre. |
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Decode |
Logs
Decided to archive this one for the reason below. Exclamation
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Trigpoint
Benchmarks/Survey Marks
A benchmark/survey mark is a bronze disc which is also used by surveyors and are either points of known location (latitude/longitude) or height.
A trig point will always be associated with a survey mark, however survey marks can be independent of a trig point.
There are many (in the hundreds of thousands) of benchmarks/survey-marks around Australia.
As this is the case, it was decided only to list actual trig points, rather than add hundreds of thousands of listings into the database. There is another option, however, for people whom wish to log such entities. There are location-less cache categories for almost all states for logging state survey marks
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Trigpoint
Benchmarks/Survey Marks
A benchmark/survey mark is a bronze disc which is also used by surveyors and are either points of known location (latitude/longitude) or height.
A trig point will always be associated with a survey mark, however survey marks can be independent of a trig point.
There are many (in the hundreds of thousands) of benchmarks/survey-marks around Australia.
As this is the case, it was decided only to list actual trig points, rather than add hundreds of thousands of listings into the database. There is another option, however, for people whom wish to log such entities. There are location-less cache categories for almost all states for logging state survey marks
