[Fun but on topic] Silly records

If · Post by If » 03 January 08 9:32 pm

Papa Bear_Left wrote:Most caches published by an Aussie volunteer reviewer: 7,118 by theUMP.

We're not worthy

ruzzelz · Post by **ruzzelz** » 03 January 08 9:55 pm

If wrote:
Papa Bear_Left wrote:Most caches published by an Aussie volunteer reviewer: 7,118 by theUMP.
We're not worthy

IF - seems like you have a few more to find

Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 04 January 08 1:22 pm

Furthest cache from home while still on the Oz mainland - 3,197km That might be hard to beat, but definitely possible.

Number of times returned to the car after being off on a search, to find the car locked but the door open - 2!. Fortunately both times out in the bush.

Thanks Sam Carter for this fun thread.

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 04 January 08 1:32 pm

If wrote:
Papa Bear_Left wrote:Most caches published by an Aussie volunteer reviewer: 7,118 by theUMP.
We're not worthy

Really? Oh, OK, then. I won't publish any more unworthy If caches, then...

maccamob · Post by **maccamob** » 04 January 08 2:28 pm

Alansee wrote:Furthest cache from home while still on the Oz mainland - 3,197km That might be hard to beat, but definitely possible.

3197.6km?

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 04 January 08 3:40 pm

Alansee wrote:Furthest cache from home while still on the Oz mainland - 3,197km That might be hard to beat, but definitely possible.

Anyone in Perth who's found caches in Sydney, let alone FNQ will have greater distances than this. One of our favourite caches (that needs to be found again, you lazy Coathangers!) is Michael (GCEA41), at 3,282.4km away (although it was a bit closer at the time we found it!)

Our furthest placed cache is 5061.3km from home (again, though, it was only about 40km away before we moved)

powellbruce · Post by **powellbruce** » 04 January 08 4:12 pm

Furthest cache from home while still on the Oz mainland - 3,197km That might be hard to beat, but definitely possible.

Ive got 6 at over 3600km
Best is 3699.55 km
Rocky canal

homedg · Post by **homedg** » 05 January 08 10:17 pm

I've got 3281.39 from Sydney to Perth.

Team Piggy · Post by **Team Piggy** » 06 January 08 11:39 am

GeoScrubers wrote:Finding a cache before it was even published = 1 (any advances on 1??) GC120HK

Yep, TGC & I found about 50+ before they were published to the site.

This was in the early days when we had done everything within 250kms and sat there all day crunching numbers to get the new ones before they were approved.
You could increment the last numbers to find the next in line. They closed that loophole years ago though.

Richary · Post by **Richary** » 06 January 08 8:55 pm

Of course one could look at things like average distance from home to finds. But mine would now be quite high because I found a lot more in SA than in my new home in Sydney. So from SA I found caches everywhere from Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Melbourne (and Sydney) so the greatest found distance wouldn't have been realistically as much as the stats would show now if I looked at the Perth ones I found from my new home location.

Big Matt and Shell · Post by **Big Matt and Shell** » 07 January 08 12:00 am

Alansee wrote:Furthest cache from home while still on the Oz mainland - 3,197km That might be hard to beat, but definitely possible.

South Coast NSW to Casuarina Pine - GCK8P3

3248.6 km

Dvixen · Post by **Dvixen** » 07 January 08 12:03 pm

I'll borrow this title from traineediplomat now that he's back in Canberra.

Largest distance from an active cacher's base to a cache (either found or unfound):

"Farthest FTF from Home Base"
Banded Roses - SW 13313.4km from your home coordinates

When I move it will flip to
The Passage Cache - NE 12682.8km from your home coordinates

Other amusants:
-46 days in a row - my personal best, can anyone beat that?
-Oldest Cache: Building42 - Portage Zydeco (GCA22 placed 21/05/2001)

Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 07 January 08 7:54 pm

I haven't actually done this cache, but, furthest distance from home to a cache - 17,773km (GCV58N - Sadie at Cape Breton, Canada)

Go Figure? Am I supposed to go the long way, or is the earth bigger than we were told at school?

hmmmmmm

SamCarter · Post by **SamCarter** » 07 January 08 8:57 pm

The earth has a radius of about 6360km (varies from equator to the poles). giving it an approximate circumference of just under 40,000km. This means that going half way around the world is about 20,000km, making that Cape Breton value about right (assuming you aren't going to dig through!

)When I lived in Hobart I spent five months in St John's, Newfoundland (yes, that IS slightly contradictory I know!), and these two points were pretty much at opposite ends of a diameter through the earth's centre (in fact, the diameter from Hobart comes out somewhere in the Atlantic off Newfoundland).

So, for the "maximum distance to a cache from home" record, you're looking for a distance of around 19980km, which will be the point on the earth diametrically opposite your home coordinates (making that point and your home "antipodes"). We can now raise the questions: (a) who has the nearest-to-antipodal FOUND cache? and (b) who has the most antipodal home-ANY cache pair?

[Oh, and not only was my "most finds without a first-to-fnd" record well-and-truly shattered by The Swaggies with 445, but I finally got a FTF over Christmas/New Year in Tassie! YAY.

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Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 10 January 08 9:34 pm

I am ferther edjumicated by my lerned freind with the latin diction-thingo!

Thank you Sam Carter!

Ahhhh... it was 24,900 MILES - that is showing my age!

I wonder just how far from home A cache can be. I am guessing that I would have to go to Iceland from Melbourne, but people from Perth may be opposite the cache I quoted earlier, in NE Canada????