Burke and wills
This Burke and Wills geocaching project is a collaboration between the State Library of Victoria and Geocaching Australia.
Specially created Burke and Wills caches have been hidden along the route taken by the Expedition, and at other related, historically significant places. You can enter the coordinates of a cache into your GPS device and hunt for them yourself. Many of the caches contain historical information and artwork from the State Library’s collections. Most of the Burke and Wills caches are physical objects, however in some instances, when the location is remote, or culturally sensitive, the object of the hunt is a virtual cache.
An easy method of identifying whether a cache is a physical cache or a virtual cache it look at the name of the cache. They will all start with B&W (?) where the ? indicates the type of cache you are looking for.
- T = Traditional where the cache is at the listed co-ordinates
- V = Virtual (normal virtual guidelines of a photo apply)
- M = Multi-cache where you will need to gather information and plot the final co-ordinates
- O = Offset cache (GPS use is minimal) to lead you to the cache
- C = Codeword (you will find a codeword rather than a container which you will need to confirm your find)
- U = Unknown, the usual Mystery / Unknown cache where you need to solve a puzzle
Commemorative Pathtags
For particularly keen explorers, the physical caches also contain a small number of commemorative Burke and Wills pathtags – a coin-like disc for keeping or trading that can be tracked online. If you're quick, you could be one of the lucky few to find one. Please only take one pathtag per caching team.
Publication Date
As the Expedition started off from Melbourne on 20th August 1860, this series of special caches will be published on this web site 150 years later - on 20th August 2010
