Melbourne East, Australia

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Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne

The majority of Melbourne's urban area is evenly divided between two graticules, with the CBD and inner suburbs lying in the west graticule. It is so much cooler (as in temperature, and as in awesomeness) than Sydney could ever hope (or want) to be. It is also cooler (as in great; fine; excellent; socially adept) than Canberra, though so is nearly everything (except maybe Adelaide). Plus Melbourne has good coffee.

• Note: If the geohash location falls within falls Rd, south of Eildon, the Globalhash is in a nearby graticule. These coordinates must be reached at all cost.

Use of dates

Melbourne is 14 hours ahead of NYC so it's acceptable to use yesterday's date.

Graticule links

• Melbourne East
  
• Melbourne West

• Melbourne South East - The north west of this graticule is still within the Melbourne area, or within easy distance of a lot of people.

Graticule Achievements

• World Map of Successful Expeditions

• World's Most Successful Graticules

Local geohashers

Felix Dance checks the four closest graticules and goes to the one most accessible by bike-train but is currently deflowering graticules in Asia (Jan 2010)
kozz will go to accessible hashes in the Eastern suburbs where possible
myka will go when he determines that the time is good and appropriate, or often if it's within riding distance (and not too dang hot), or just if someone suggests he meets them there, or he's out traveling anyway. myka is often available in #geohashing
Stevage comes to some of them if they're interesting
Urcher, Bilby and Doomhammer
Buckleyj will go to any if he can get there on his bike.

See Melbourne Geohashers for a complete list.

Summary of 2010 Expeditions

Jul 2010-10-10 -37 144 Sunday - Urcher, Bilby and Doomhammer - Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne
Jul 2010-08-09 -37 144 Monday - Stevage - In a spooky cemetery, Footscray
Jul 2010-08-08 -37 144 Sunday - Stevage - Wading into Port Philip Bay, out of time
Jul 2010-07-23 -37 145 Friday - Stevage, Mitchell and Ben - Near a reservoir on the outskirts of Broadford, Victoria.
Jul 2010-07-21 -38 145 Wednesday - Stevage and Ellen - Skye Racecourse near Cranbourne,
Jul 2010-07-20 -37 144 Tuesday - talex, Stevage - Altona - In a park/marsh at night
Jul 2010-07-11 -37 144 Sunday - Stevage Domino Trail - epic
Jul 2010-07-03 -37 145 Saturday - talex, buckleyj - Ivanhoe - Middle of a park
Jun 2010-06-13 -37 145 Sunday - Kozz - Eltham North - Middle of a football field
Jun 2010-06-07 -37 145 Sunday - Stevage - Oakleigh - In a house under construction
Apr 2010-04-22 -37 144 Thursday - myka - streetside in Broadmeadows
Apr 2010-04-01 -37 144 Thursday - Buckley - Suburban North Essendon
Mar 2010-03-28 -37 145 Sunday - Kozz & myka - Reserve in Templestowe
Mar 2010-03-26 -37 145 Friday - Kozz - Plenty - No access
Mar 2010-03-25 -37 145 Thursday - Kozz - Bulleen - no access
Mar 2010-03-20 -37 145 Saturday - kozz - Kinglake National Park
Mar 2010-03-13 -37 145 Saturday - myka, Kozz - Barber Hill Track, near Three Bridges near Yarra Junction
Mar 2010-03-11_-37_145 Thursday - kozz - Suburban driveway in Box Hill South
Mar 2010-03-08_-37_145 Monday - kozz - Side of a steep hill in Yarra Glen
Mar 2010-03-03_-37_145 Wednesday - kozz, myka - Boring suburbia in Roweville.
Feb 2010-02-20_-37_144 Saturday - kozz, Divided highway right outside the Altona Toyota plant.
Feb 2010-02-18_-37_144 Thursday - Betrand - Close to Calder Freeway and the THUNDERDOME.
Feb 2010-02-17_-37_144 Wednesday - buckleyj, myka, Bertrand - Intersection of Bell St. and Gilbert Rd. Too close not to get.
Feb 2010-02-08_-37_145 Monday - Kozz, myka - Reserve in Heatherton
Feb 2010-02-07_-37_145 Sunday - Kozz - Suburban driveway in Templestowe
Jan 2010-01-30_-37_144 Saturday - Kozz - Farmer's paddock about 20km out of Heathcote
Jan 2010-01-24_-37_145 Sunday - Kozz - Edge of a field in Woori Yallock, no public access
Jan 2010-01-23_-37_145 Saturday - Kozz - Kew East, on top of a building, no public access
Jan 2010-01-19_-37_145 Tuesday - kozz - Middle of the Knox City Waste Transfer Station And Recycling Centre - no trespassing
Jan 2010-01-15_-37_145 Friday - kozz - Side of the road in suburbia, Ringwood
Jan 2010-01-13_-37_145 Wednesday - kozz - In Nettleton Reserve close to the Monash Freeway, Glen Iris
Jan 2010-01-04_-37_145 Monday - kozz, myka - On the edge of the median strip in Canterbury Rd, Kilsyth St. Likely Speedracer.
Jan 2010-01-03 -37 145 Saturday - Stephen

Summary of 2009 Expeditions

Dec 2009-12-23 -37 145 Wednesday - kozz, myka - north eastern suburbs
Dec 2009-12-16_-37_145 Wednesday - Stevage - someone's front lawn in Wheeler's Hill. Success, as far as I know.
Dec 2009-12-14 -37 145 Monday - myka | Nice drive up the Maroondah and into the mountains, then Blockage-tree. (undecided on the failreason)
Dec 2009-12-06 -37 144 Sunday - buckleyj Picturesque countryside (No trespassing)
Dec 2009-12-02 -37 144 Friday - buckleyj Boring house in Keilor; forgot camera
Nov 2009-11-08 -37 144 Sunday - myka boring new residential area
Oct 2009-10-13 -37 145 Tuesday - myka park closed
Oct 2009-10-12 -37 144 Monday - Felix Dance, Mitch, myka
Oct 2009-10-11 -37 144 Sunday - myka
Oct 2009-10-06 -37 145 Tuesday - Felix Dance, myka, Pip
Sept 2009-09-20 -37 144 Sunday - myka, Urcher, Bilby and Doomhammer (who convinced some friends to meet them there)
Sept 2009-09-19 -37 145 Saturday - Stevage
Sept 2009-09-17 -37 145 Thursday - Felix Dance
Sept 2009-09-13 -37 145 Sunday - Felix Dance, myka, Mitch, Tim, Sasha, Urcher, Bilby and Doomhammer
Sept 2009-09-06 -37 145 Sunday - Felix Dance
Sept 2009-09-05 -37 145 Saturday - Felix Dance
Sept 2009-09-03 -37 145 Thursday - Felix Dance
Aug 2009-08-23 -37 145 Sunday - Felix Dance, myka
Aug 2009-08-05 -37 145 Wednesday - Felix Dance, Adam, Sasha, Stevage, Mitch
Aug 2009-08-01 -37 145 Saturday - Felix Dance, Sasha, Kozz
July 2009-07-29 -37 145 Wednesday - Pat, Al.
July 2009-07-17 -37 144 Friday - myka Midnightish ~30 minutes after the points were available
July 2009-07-08 -38 145 Wednesday - Felix Dance
June 2009-06-14 -37 144 Sunday - myka No Trespassing
June 2009-06-13 -37 144 Saturday - myka
June 2009-06-08 -37 144 Monday - Felix Dance, Stevage, Matt - Tech fail
May 2009-05-30 -37 145 Saturday - Stevage
May 2009-05-28 -37 144 Thursday - Felix Dance, Stevage
May 2009-05-26 -37 145 Tuesday - Felix Dance Private property
May 2009-05-25 -37 144 Monday - Felix Dance, Stevage
May 2009-05-24 -37 145 Sunday Felix Dance
May 2009-05-02 -37 145 Saturday - Felix Dance
Apr 2009-04-10 -37 144 Friday - myka, Joanna In the ocean
Feb 2009-02-21 -37 144 Saturday - myka Missed it by That Much! (No Trespassing)
Feb 2009-02-14 -37 145 Saturday - Stephen, myka
Feb 2009-02-07 -37 145 Saturday - myka Success? (sillyness)
Jan 2009-01-10 -37 145 Saturday - Stephen

Summary of 2008 Expeditions

Nov 2008-11-01 -37 145 Saturday - Stephen
Oct 2008-10-18 -38 145 Saturday - Stephen, Lord Adam, Lulu
Sept 2008-09-06 -37 145 Saturday - Mac, Bruce, Stephen
June 2008-06-27 -37 145 Friday - Theduffman, Ginnybee
June 2008-06-24 -37 144 Thursday - Urcher and Bilby
June 2008-06-21 -37 145 Saturday - Talex, Stevage, Bruce, Felix Dance, Gnattitude, Theduffman Three groups went and all managed to miss each other
June 2008-06-20 -37 145 Friday - Joannac, theduffman

Geohashes considered

May 2008-05-25 -37 145 Sunday - Ha! Right in the middle of a cemetery. That would have been cool.