Event 1: Aus Middle Champs - Orienteering Western Australia

AUSTRALIAN MIDDLE DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Beautiful granite in a picturesque open farmland setting

'Bitidiin'

MAP	Peterdine North
LOCATION	Spencers Brook; 80 km E of Perth, 10 km SW of Northam
DATE	Saturday 30 September 2023
THE TEAM	Course planner – Noel Schoknecht Controller – Graham Braid IOF Event Advisor – Andrew Lumsden Mapper – Noel Schoknecht (2023)
MAP INFO	1:10000 and 1:7500. A totally updated and improved map using LIDAR to ISOM 2017-2 specifications.
TERRAIN	Mainly open and fast farmland littered with complex and challenging granite in sloping to hilly terrain. This area was first used in Easter 1993.
OLD MAP	Peterdine 1993
NOONGAR	Bitidiin means ‘Place of Ants’. (But don’t worry, despite the name, we’ve been unable to find unusual quantities of ants at this location!) Peterdine/Bitidiin is in the boodja (country) of the Ballardong Noongar people, who lived in the broad Avon Valley, east of the escarpment.

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Photos by Noel Schoknecht.

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Acknowledgement of country

Noongar country logo 2023 150px Ngalak kaaditj nidja Noongar Boodjar. Koora-Yeyi-Kalyakool.

Orienteering WA acknowledges the Noongar people, the Traditional and continuing Custodians of the land on which we gather to enjoy our sport, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.