Canberra, Australia
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| Wednesday 2024-12-18 | -35.1295012, 149.7614786 |
| Yass, Australia | Goulburn, Australia | Wollongong, Australia |
| Tumut, Australia | Canberra, Australia | Bateman's Bay, Australia |
| Kosciuszko, Australia | Cooma, Australia | Tuross Head, Australia |
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The Canberra graticule lies at -35 degrees latitude, 149 longitude. It encompasses Canberra, Queanbeyan, Bungendore, Braidwood and a number of smaller towns.
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
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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
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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, we may instead invade our neighbour graticule of -35, 148. Similarly (though less likely) is a northern invasion to -34 149.
What about inaccessible Saturdays?
In the Canberra graticule it is generally agreed 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 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
Monday 2008 July 07 - About 400m off the road in the Yass neighbour.
Sunday 2008 July 06 - Fair distance in all claimed graticules. Monga National Park in the 149.
Saturday 2008 July 05 - Northwest of dunlop. Looks to be on the edge of a creek. Viable saturday hash?
Friday 2008 July 04 - Seems to be in the little spot of non-national forest between Kosciusko and Namadgi National parks. But it means we either drive around Namadgi NP, or through. Either way, a bit of a pain.
Summary of Expeditions...
2008-06-29 - Sunday
- Bulls, barbed wire, a pond and pines. A successful hash visit!
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
- Graticule invasion of 148! 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
- Attempted graticule invasion of 148... Damn GPS navigation wanted to go via Tumut on fire trails.
Non-Geohash things to do in Canberra?
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
Sign up, fellow xkcd hooligans
- 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.
Kieran also took the liberty of creating a Facebook group, but it's more for propaganda purposes. Invite all your friends geohashing.
