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Geocaching often hits the media and we even produce some ‘media’ of our own.

To see what the geocaching community has made have a look at Community Media

Here's mainstream media that we know about. Please add whatever you find! If you are from the media, check out our media kit.

6 February 2008: "Warm Warmer... found it!" - Go Magazine

Great one page article, with readers directed to Geocaching Australia for more information!

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29 November - 5 December 2007: "Cache me if you can" - Coffs Harbour Independent

Article from the local rag there, mentioning real names of people I don't know. Apologies for the tears, it was given to me by someone who had torn it out of the paper!

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27-28 October 2007: "Hi-tech Hide and Seek" - Gold Coast Weekend Bulletin

zactyl and Cannibal Smurf get interviewed about Geocaching.

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22 June 2007: "New-age Treasure Hunt" - The Weekender

d.d.dudes interviewed for article in The Weekender, Sunshine Coast.

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April 2007: ABC Goulburn Murray audio interview (MP3 4Mb)

Interview aired on ABC featuring audio from a cache hunt with Rhinogeo.

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March 2007: Geoaching in Australia - A Great Scouting Activity

Issue 2 2007 Scout About

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26 August 2006: Scouring the planet for hidden gems

The Adelaide Advertiser

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22 July 2006: Geocaching

The "Good Weekend" supplement in the Sydney Morning Herald

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1 April 2006: Hide and seek in an electronic world

General article in the "Weekend" pull-out section of The West Australian newspaper.

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9 February 2006: GPS treasure hunt

Informative item on New Zealand TV, featuring several prominent NZ cachers.

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11 January 2006: Unique treasure hunt becoming more popular

Positive article in Clare Valley Newspaper (SA), "The Northern Argue".

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10 June 2005: What On Earth Is Geocaching

Broadcast on ABC Western Plains Radio

• This is all you need to go geocaching...a GPS device to tell you where to go
• Well...we think it's a sport, or at the very least a hobby.
• It involves the planting of an item in a specific location...known as a cache.
• The localtion is published on the internet and people have to find it using GPS technology.
• It's really just a huge game of hide and seek.
• Once you find the cache you fill in the log book to say you were there and swap trinkets.
• There are over 1300 geocaching teams in Australia and it's played in over 200 countries.
• Dubbo will be hosting a huge geocaching event this weekend with twenty teams taking part.
• The trick, I'm told it to find a picturesque location so that geocachers get something extra from the experience.

Forum discussion: The Bronze on ABC Radio

Audio stream, in RealMedia format, requires RealPlayer.

28 May 2005: Active Geocaching

Spectrum (SMH), 28 May 2005

Published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Magazine (pg 32).

Mind Socket took a couple of buddies geocaching for an introductory article that was published with one of his photos. Contains a minor cache spoiler (cache not named).

22 May 2005: The Treasure that's Hidden in Lost Places

The same article reprinted in the Sunday Tasmanian

8 May 2005: The Treasure that's Hidden in Lost Places

Sunday Telegraph, 8 May 2005

Published in The Sunday Telegraph This is a reprint of the previous article for NSW readers. Includes photos of Mind Socket, EcoNic and EcoDave.

5 May 2005: Richary's interview on 891 ABC Adelaide breakfast

Forum discussion Richary on ABC Radio

The 6 minute interview - 700k MP3 file

1 May 2005: Global game of Hide and Seek

Adelaide Sunday Mail, 1 May 2005

Published in The Adelaide Sunday Mail and online at Escape.

HUNTING for hidden treasure, David Jones found himself abseiling into a narrow Blue Mountains gorge, past moss-covered rocks and ferns to the trickling stream far below.

They are everywhere - in fact you may have walked right past one. Dozens of caches are tucked away around the world. To get started all you need is a hand-held GPS (ranging from $200 to more than $1000) and access to the Internet. On geocaching websites you'll find the longitude and latitude and, in many cases, cryptic clues as to their location. And then there's the backpack of must-haves: torch, compass, first-aid kit, a camera for recording the event and a calculator (many of the puzzles have a mathematical bent).

There are three rules to caching:

• take something from the cache
• replace it with something of similar value, and
• write about your visit in the container's log book.

Suggested websites:

• geocaching.com.au
• www.geocaching.com

Forum discussions: Article in "Escape" and Adelaide Sunday Mail Article on Geocaching 01-05-2005

19 February 2005: Adult Hide and Seek Catches On

Illawarra Mercury, 19 February 2005

Published in the Illawarra Mercury and a few days later in MX:

An increasingly popular game of grown-up hide-and-seek is leading adventurers on high-tech hunts for hidden treasure.

It's called geocaching, and all you need to play is a portable Global Positioning System, access to the internet and a sense of adventure.

Forum discussion: Geocaching Article and MX article on geocaching

14 December 2004: The Australian

Forum Discussion: geocaching.com.au in The Australian

November 2003: Dubbo City News

GeoWhating

8 July 2003: Canberra Chronicle

An accidental find by a Canberra resident, unviels Geocaching to at least one current cacher. Cache-chasing creates excitement in Canberra

18 November 2001: ABC Radio National

On 21st October, 2001 Team Chaos members Captain Chaos and The Ginger Loon were interviewed by Chris Bullock from ABC Radio station Radio National. The topic was Geocaching and GPS usage. The information gathered was broadcast as a part Radio National's "Background Briefing" program focusing on GPS, which went to air on Sunday 18th November at 9:00am and was repeated on Tuesday 20th November at 7:00pm.

• Audio stream, in RealMedia format, requires RealPlayer.
• Full transcript of program.
• RADIO K.A.O.S. locationless cache, based upon content from program. (Now archived)

August 2001: Geocaching: You Become the Search Engine

Published in Silicon Chip, August 2001. A very comprehensive article with a photo of Ideology