Zürich, Switzerland

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Zürich, Switzerland is currently in a hashclash with München, Germany. The clash will be won by the graticule to report more successful expeditions during January 2013.
You are free to side with one of the graticules and motivate it by cheering it on - or to demotivate the other one. Progress can be tracked here.


The Zürich graticule is located at latitude 47, longitude 8. Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, lies more or less in the center of it. The graticule 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 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.


About

The graticule covers an area of 8375 km2. The highest elevation is near the Ruchen mountain, and lies 2901 m (9500 ft) above sea level. The lowest point (289 m) is where the Rhine leaves the graticule westwards 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 Zürich is 1.09%.

Today's Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Active geohashers in this graticule

Inactive geohashers or status unknown

Achievements

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The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
for the month of 2012-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.


Current plans

Check out the Current events page to see if any expeditions are planned here.

Expeditions

Most recent first.

2013

2012

2011

older

  • 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 in 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.