Geocaching

Extreme geocaches

List of geocaches reaching records in various areas. I'll be glad if you send me any corrections, updates and tips for any other records (robert@antonio.cz)

European extremes

Here I fight with ambiguous border of Europe. I decided to use a geographical border, so I don't consider belonging to European countries but geographically belonging to other continents (Canarian Islands, Cyprus etc.) On the other side I consider all islands geographically belonging to European continen (Spitsbergen, Azores etc.)

Northernmost cache: GCQ1MZ – 3 Brave Men (Spitsbergen), N 80° 05'.

Southernmost cache: GC2C49R – Trypiti - The Southernmost of Europe (Greece). N 34° 48'.

Westernmost cache: GCXFPA – Escada do Céu (Azores), W 31° 15'. Circa 200 km southwest is the GCG822 – Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents, that holds another record (see below), but it lies not on dryland, so I don't consider it here.

Easternmost cache: Regular problem. Eastern European border is the most ambiguous. Luckily there aren't too many caches at Ural. Record probably holds the GCR3RC – To idols of Seven brothers near Yekaterinburg, E 60° 14'.

Highest cache: GC2BVRY – Near the top of Europe (France/Italy). Near an alpinist route to Mont Blanc, 4669 m above sea level.

Lowest dryland cache: GC91A1 – volga (Volgograd), 12 m below sea level. There is another cache nearby, with same altitude (GCZCX7 – Wolgaufer), but it is probably destroyed.

Oldest cache: GC43 – Europe's First (Ireland). Hidden on 3.6.2000.

Most visited cache: See World extremes.

World extremes

Northernmost cache: GC5803 – As North As It Gets! (Ellesmere Island), N 82° 31'. However it lies near a Canadian military base, so ordinary civilists haven't access there.

Southernmost cache: GCHN13 – No Further South From Here (Antarctica). Virtual cache at South Pole, you need to take a photo to log. And because there are many tourist flights, the cache becomes an ordinary fly-in. Dammit :(

Southernmost physical cache: GCC3E3 – Chilly Willy at Byrd Surface Camp (Antarctica). S 80° 01'.

Westernmost cache: I can't define this term properly. For every cache you find another west of the former, when the Earth is round...However the cache at western hemisphere closest to the 180th meridian is probably GC20HC1 – Mango Trees (Tonga) at W 174° 02'.
I clearly do not consider the virtual cache at South Pole :)

Easternmost cache: Same problem as above. The cache at eastern hemisphere closest to the 180th meridian is probably GCFB80 – Nukubalavu (Fiji) at E 179° 20'.

Highest cache: GC2BX63 – Earth's Roof - Mount Everest Peak (Tibet/Nepal). Earthcache at Mount Everest summit, 8848 m above sea level.

Highest physical cache: GC10CTQ – Uhuru Peak (Tanzania), 5894 m above sea level.

Highest cache above Earth ground: GC1BE91 – International Space Station. The only cache in space, its name says it all. It travels at altitude 336-346 km above Earth. Probably it's also the cache with most visited listing.

Lowest dryland cache: GC1HPB5 – Lower-est Cache on Earth (Israel). At Dead Sea shore, 419 m below sea level. There are more caches at Dead Sea coast, but this lies closest to water level.

Deepest cache: GCG822 – Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents (Atlantic ocean). At bottom of the sea near Azores Islands, 2300 metres deep.

Oldest cache: GCF – The Original Stash (Oregon). The first cache ever, hidden on 3.5.2000 by Dave Ulmer, later founder of gc.com. Now archived.

Oldest active cache: GC30 – Mingo (Kansas). Hidden on 11.5.2000.

Oldest cache not discovered yet: GC1259 – Kougarok (Alaska). Hidden on 23.6.2001, waits for your FTF.

Cache longest waiting for FTF: GC15D – Oh so blue (Belize). Hidden on 1.6.2001, FTF on 25.3.2009.

Most visited cache: GCF551 – Four Windows (officially Germany). Armchair virtual cache, that you can log without searching anything. It violated the rules, because it didn't point to any physical object, but had an exception from Groundspeak. In 2010 Groundspeak cancelled the exception and the cache ended up in archive. During its history had 9460 found logs.
(Some rebels consider it as the northernmost cache, but we won't corrupt our extremecaching with such a tricks :)

Most visited physical cache: Probably GC14WV8 – Terezka in Prague, Czechia. Till 10.5.2011 had 6990 found logs.
It surpassed the GCGV0P – Original Stash Tribute Plaque, which is usually considered as the most visited, but till 10.5.2011 had only 4743 found logs.

Biggest container: GC1E9AB – *DRASAL* (Czechia). Cache dedicated to (literally) biggest Czech person ever has probably also the biggest container in the world. The cache is composed of a whole cave with inner space over 50 m³ where surely the largest trades can fit.

Most bookmarked cache: GC1169 – Mission 9: Tunnel of Light (Washington). One of last two Project A.P.E. caches, till 10.5.2011 had 515 bookmarks.

– Geovirgin, i.e. the cache waiting for FTF. Extremecachers, you have a chance :)