Canberra, Australia

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Canberra, Australia

The Canberra graticule lies at -35 degrees latitude, 149 longitude. It encompasses Canberra, Queanbeyan, Bungendore, Braidwood and a number of smaller towns.

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The region consists of farmland, National Parks, a generally dry lake, and a few hills that we call mountains. Also to be found are dirt tracks, ravines, cliffs and at least one mountain worthy of the name. Canberra (the largest city found in the locality) is more commonly known as the Politics, Porno and Pyro hub of the nation, but sometimes also referred to as Our Nation's Capital. We love our city. We especially love the porno(graphy), pyro(technics) and pro(stitute)s.

“	It's impossible to get lost in Canberra	”
—Nemo

Canberra is renowned for being a navigational nightmare due to its high number of roundabouts.

Info on the odds of a hash point falling within the city of Canberra can be found here

Meetup Details

Note: XKCD Geo Hash meetups occur at 4pm Saturday afternoons according to the standard, but in Canberra during the colder months, 4pm is far too close to dusk. So meetups in Canberra during Winter will be at 2pm (some time after spring rolls around, we will switch back to 4pm. Stay tuned!)

Eastern Australia is 14hrs ahead of NYC. So, like all other Australian cities, Canberra's target for the Saturday meet-up will be determined using Friday's (US Time) data - that means that we get Saturday's time on Friday at 23:30.

Where the target lands in the East of the graticule, -35, 148 may be the place to be. Likewise one notch to the North may be good where the target lands in an accessible spot there, and an inaccessible one here.

What about inaccessible Saturdays?

Our idea is that should the saturday geohash fall in a remote and inaccessible location, we may instead opt for visiting a geohash location from earlier in the week. We (Psud and Nemo so far have discussed this) feel this is preferable to a voted hashpoint (which, in our humble opinion, rather misses the point of a hash by turning it into a popularity contest). Our first late-hash-visit was Saturday 2008-06-14 -35 149, when we visited Friday the 13ths hashpoint.

Upcoming Locations

2008-06-26 - Thursday - Another far southeast corner of the graticule. -35, 148 is 500m off the Snowy Mountains Hwy, but that's a long drive from Canberra (google path profiler says 102.7mi, so ~160k). Not sure if this is a candidate for a replacement weekend hash.

Summary of Expeditions...

2008-06-17 - Tuesday - Three seperate visits! Two made independently in the early morning. At lunch there was a successful crowd and frisbee

2008-06-14 - Saturday - we were deliberately 24hours late... i.e., we did Friday's graticule since Saturday's was particularly poor.

2008-06-08 - Sunday - we got there, after climbing through 2 (thankfully non-electric) fences.

2008-06-07 - Saturday - We are MNB. We went the wrong way, and it ended up being down the side of a cliff

2008-06-02 - Monday - No access: Psud got to the edge of private property - a youth shelter.

2008-06-01 - Sunday - We invented the Geohash Card Game in the pine regrowth past Cotter Dam

2008-05-31 - Saturday - Best expedition so far! (it had a cemetery!)

2008-05-24 - Saturday - Damn GPS navigation wanted to go via Tumut on fire trails.

Non-Geohash things to do in Canberra?

Canberra is rather pleasant at times...

Activities

• Play "Spot the Olympic Torch Relay rent-a-crowds"
• Climb the Carillion
• Steal the blinky light from Mt. Ainslie
• Throwing things at ADFA until they chase you
• Picnic at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (retired)
• Breaking the law by carrying such dangerous items as fire crackers and "laser" pointers into the New South Welsh portion of our graticule.

Notable Events

• The Annual Tulip Fest AKA Floriade
• Legal Fireworks Purchase Weekend
• Kangaroo Cull of 08

Local Geohashers

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• Psud AKA Adam has started a mailing list and expects to attend on Saturdays - Seats available for car pooling for some hashes.
• Nemo expresses an interest too, hopes to get more involved after the current few months of busy get finished!
• Black Rattism is also an interested party
• Likewise for Somersault 00:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC). *puts up their hand*
• Luke is interested in attending. If not this weekend (may 24) then perhaps the next.
• Llandorin has a toy 4WD he wants to try out (see photos of 2008-05-31).
• Chris is keen
• Cameron is in the area.
• xen will try out his new GPS on saturdays
• 'gim is up for some random travelling
• Kieran is a Canberra resident, originally from a small place near Wodonga.
• Joanna is keen to meet people
• Raphael is in Canberra but relies on buses. You better not screw us up this year, ACTION.
• Terry can attend sometimes and should be able to provide a car seat or two for others.
• Baz is interested.
• Spectra AKA Bernard made it to the hash in the parliamentary triangle. Hopefully more soon.
• ConMan (another Chris) will try to get to ones in the Territory, and elsewhere if there's a car seat available.

Mailing List

The Canberra Geohashing mailing list is the main tool we use to organise geohash expeditions and carpooling. Even if you're planning on sneaking to a hash point without letting anyone else know, you can watch the mailing list to see when others are planning on being there.

See here for the list.