2010-09-04 53 0

From Geohashing
Sat 4 Sep 2010 in Skegness:
53.0448326, 0.0126721
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Location

1) In a harvested wheat field just north of the village of Sibsey. The nearest town was Boston (Lincolnshire, UK).

Participants

Sourcerer

Expedition

2010-09-04 53 0 :: 2010-09-04 53 -0 :: 2010-09-04 52 -0 :: 2010-09-04 52 0

Sourcerer (Neil) spotted that the hash point was only 850 metres east of the Greenwich Meridian and there was another hashpoint 850 metres west. This was the ideal opportunity to collect two easy hashes within walking distance of each other. In the end he didn't walk because the siren call of a Bateman's pub was too strong. This involved a small detour by car. After that he needed petrol. For this hash point he only walked about 450 metres. Neil believes he was the first to visit a geohash in the Skegness graticule.

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Sourcerer earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (53, 0) graticule, here, on 2010-09-04.

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More Proof

I have a gdb file from my Garmin GPS receiver. I used GPSBabel to convert it to GPX/XML format. Here is the trackpoint for the geohash. The time-stamp is in GMT.

<trkpt lat="53.044836418703198" lon="0.012712329626083">
  <ele>0.137451171875</ele>
  <time>2010-09-04T12:06:02Z</time>
</trkpt>

Expeditions and Plans

2010-09-04
McMinnville, Oregon Jim Off a highway near Salem down a steep embankment.
Schweinfurt, Germany Danatar in a harvested corn field near Burghausen, a part of Wasserlosen. Country:...
Kielce, Poland Felinator In the middle of river Wisła (Vistula) in Kraków, near power plant Łęg.
Northampton, United Kingdom Sourcerer 3) In a residential street in Royston, Hertfordshire, UK.
Cambridge, United Kingdom Sourcerer 4) In a sugar beet field east of Royston, Hertfordshire, UK.
Utrecht, Netherlands CO2, Freeze XJ In between Montfoort en IJsselstein, in a piece of farmland, probably priva...
Hull, United Kingdom Sourcerer 2) In a sweet corn field just north west of the village of Sibsey. The near...
Skegness, United Kingdom Sourcerer 1) In a harvested wheat field just north of the village of Sibsey. The near...



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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2010-08-27 52 1 - 2010-09-04_53_0 - 2010-09-04_53_-0 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.