Zürich, Switzerland
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The Zürich graticule is located at latitude 47, longitude 8. Zürich, the biggest city in Switzerland, is located more or less in the center of the graticule. It further contains the cities of Winterthur, Lucerne and Schaffhausen.
Around two third of its area are within Switzerland whereas the northern part belongs to Germany. Other mentionable geographical features are the origin of the Danube river near Donaueschingen, the river Rhine that cuts the area from east to west, and the beginning of the Alpine mountain range in the very south east of the graticule.
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About
The graticule covers an area of 8375 km2. The highest elevation is near the Ruchen mountain, and lies on 2901 m (9500 ft). The lowest point (289 m) is where the Rhine leaves the graticule westward near the town of Sisseln.
According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:
42.05% Fields 24.31% Forests 22.90% Natural reserves 3.63% Water 3.35% Settlements 2.60% Roads 1.14% Highways
The chance that a hash falls into the city of Zurich is 1.09%.
Today's Location: [Zurich, Switzerland]
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Achievements
The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
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The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
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Current plans
Check out the Current events page to see if any expeditions are planned here.
Expeditions
most recent first
- 2013-01-03 Calamus and Chris_47_8 found a pub and played some billard!
- 2013-01-02 Chris_47_8 went to the lovely canton of Schwyz.
- 2012-12-29 Calamus unsuccessfully tried to meet Foehammer.
- 2012-12-23 Calamus went to Glattfelden.
- 2012-12-01 Calamus made an international visit.
- 2012-11-26 Calamus wandered the Üetliberg.
- 2012-09-21 Calamus did part of a planet walk.
- 2012-09-10 Calamus failed at the Limmat.
- 2012-08-25 Calamus visited the German border.
- 2012-08-19 Calamus celebrated his hashversary.
- 2012-08-03 Calamus captured the Munot fortress. Through the door.
- 2012-07-30 Calamus's tron was bedevilled by elevation differences.
- 2012-07-29 Calamus and Waldzitherclown visited Bülach city
- 2012-07-08 Calamus got pranked by the Argovian construction authority
- 2012-06-30 Calamus went paddling
- 2012-06-29 Calamus camped over night and got thunderstorm'd
- 2012-06-27 Calamus managed to be allowed onto a wealthy guy's grounds
- 2012-06-25 Calamus found somebody had been waiting for him at the hashpoint for five years
- 2012-06-24 Calamus had to run to reach this nigh-mid-city hashpoint in time
- 2012-06-05 Foehammer failed an ambassador achievement in an Argovian village, but introduced his girlfriend to Geohashing
- 2012-05-26 Frizzy and Hijackal hiked 20 km to the Mouseover hash in flip flops
- 2012-05-25 Frizzy and Hijackal celebrated Towel Day by juggling on the hashpoint
- 2012-05-04 Easy hash on a hill next to a grove and very close to Foehammers home
- 2012-03-08 Although this geohash lies around 3600km from Zurich, its conquer began here. Wolkenjaegers attempt even made it into the hall of amazingness!
- 2011-08-20 A nice spot in the middle of Winterthur city
- 2011-08-19 Calamus felt like mountaineering
- 2011-06-18 Crox and Elisa were stopped by a construction site
- 2011-06-13 In the german exclave Büsingen, reached independently by Ekorren and TheOneRing
- 2011-05-07 Between Effretikon and Kempttal, not far away from the 2010-12-12-geohash
- 2011-02-15 Cheap one: directly on a street in the wood near Baden, Switzerland
- 2011-01-09 Multinational meetup near Schleitheim, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- 2010-12-26 Danatar visited a snowy but sunlit forest near Schaffhausen and went to the Rhine Falls afterwards.
- 2010-12-12 In Bassersdorf
- 2009-10-14 The Swiss Army went geohashing!
- 2009-05-31 Ekorren was at Sumpfohren.
- 2009-01-21 reached by Enric and relet.
- 2009-01-04 A little new years trip. First time ever for all three participants.
- 2008-11-19 A group led by swiss radio seems to have reached the point. One photo was posted to the main page, otherwise it was only reported on the radio.
- 2008-05-24 Looks like someone got near, but the description is a bit on the short side. Participants were most probably stopped by a fence and did not reach the coordinates.
