There are many events which have shaped the history of Australia. Many are very familiar but others are less well known.

Fifteen locations where significant events have occurred are shown on the following map. There is a number associated with each location. Below the map are ten events in the history of our country. Identify the location of each of the ten events and use the number associated with the location on the map to assign values to the letters A to K (no I).

The cache, of course, is not at the published coordinates but can be found at

S41 AB.CDE  E146 FG.HJK

The ten events are:

A: The first recorded landfall by an European on Australian soil occurred at which location?

B: 406 lives were lost in Australia's worst civil maritime disaster in 1845 when the ship Cataraqui was wrecked. Where did this happen?

C: An event occurred at this location which is considered to be the birth place of Australian democracy. Where did this take place?

D: In which city in Australia was the first Act of Parliament passed giving women the right to vote?

E: From which location did the first convoy of Australian and New Zealand troops depart to fight in World War I?

F: Don Bradman was Australia's (and probably the world's) greatest cricketer. Where was he born?

G: Where is the birthplace of QANTAS?

H: The Reverend John Flynn is widely remembered as the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (originally called the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service). Where was the first air ambulance based?

J: Where was the first atomic bomb detonated in Australia?

K: In 1966 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families when on strike which was finally ended in 1975 when the Australian Government of the day negotiated a settlement to hand back a significant parcel of land to the Gurindji people. This was probably the most significant in the Landrights Movement for Indigenous People. Where did the strike occur?

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