Distant UK caches!!

[+Subarite]

This cache seems to be a bit of a challenge for anyone in the UK!

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=41511

 

Andy.

[+RoswellJam]

I noticed that one as well. Think I might attempt after work tonight Do you think I can make it in tomorrow morning?

 

"Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and take a look around once in a while....you might miss it"

[+Lost in Space]

Now come on Moderators!

 

If this isn't blatant cache advertising, I don't know what is!!

[+Tim & June]

Cheers LiS,

 

Now we know where to put "Sylvester Stallone".

 

 

Tim & June (Winchester)

 

See June, I told you that sign which said 'Unsuitable for Motor Vehicles' was wrong !

[+Lost in Space]

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Originally posted by Tim & June:

 

Now we know where to put "Sylvester Stallone".

 

 

Tim & June (Winchester)

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Yo, Hornet! Is the old Transit up for it??

 

[+dylanhayes]

If it was logged as being in Spain I think the Gibraltarians would take the cache out at dawn and shoot it for high treason.

 

Seriously though there is a bit of a categorisation issue with caches in overseas territories of various countries. Legally they might be in the UK or France for example, but in practical terms they could be in The Falkland Islands or Kerguelen for example. The problem would have been a lot worse in colonial days , but even now a lot of very obscure and far away islands still belong to the UK and France, although there are comparitively few caches in them. Still it would make the task for somene wishing to do every geocache in the UK just a bit harder.

 

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[+jeremyp]

Gibraltar and the Falklands are technically not in the UK which includes only Great Britain Northern Ireland and (I think) the Channel Islands.

 

Gibraltar, incidentally, has it's own Internet domain (gi) so the logical thing would be to have a Gibraltar section in geocaching.com.

 

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jeremyp

The second ten million caches were the worst too.

http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

[el10t]

Not sure about Channel Islands (although there is a Trivial Pursuit question that asks something about parts of UK occupied in WW2, the answer to which is the Channel Islands - I'm not sure how reliable TP is as an encyclopedia though!)

[crr003]

The cache in the Isle of Man is under Ireland.

 

If the geocaching countries database included the countries from the CIA webpage, this would get round these issues.

 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum - Everton 2 Arsenal 1

[Ben Pid]

Dont agree with Jeremy because I feel that if the island is owned by the state of the country then I think it has to be in that country....IE Gibralter is in the British Empire!....besides that its the only bit of spain we got left!!! hehe

 

Ben Piddington http://www.buckscaching.co.uk

[+jeremyp]

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Originally posted by Geo Weasel:

Dont agree with Jeremy because I feel that if the island is owned by the state of the country then I think it has to be in that country....IE Gibralter is in the British Empire!....besides that its the only bit of spain we got left!!! hehe

 

Ben Piddington http://www.buckscaching.co.uk

Nope, the reasons are mainly legal, but it does not follow that because Gibraltar is part of the British "Empire" it is also part of Britain. The United Kingdom is a term that refers to a very specific set of territories of which Gibraltar is not one. They have their own government and taxes and laws.

 

If you go there you'll find a very strange mixture of mediterranean and British culture e.g. the most common language you'll hear is Spanish, but the police look exactly like our police.

 

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jeremyp

The second ten million caches were the worst too.

http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching