This set of 29 photographs was taken during Army’s Inter-area Orienteering competition held in the Kimbolton State Forest, near Lake Eppalock, Victoria in 1990. Teams from Albury-Wodonga Bendigo, Broadmeadows, Melbourne Metropolitan, Puckapunyal and Watsonia participated in the annual competition. Bendigo’s Army Survey Regiment led by SGT Mick Minchin hosted the Orienteering events. This set of 29 photographs was taken during Army’s Inter-area Orienteering competition held in Kimbolton State Forest, near Lake Eppalock, Victoria in 1990. The colour photographs are on 35mm negative film and were scanned at 2400 dpi. They are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. .1) to .4) - Photo, colour, 1990, unidentified competitors. .5) - Photo, colour, 1990, L to R: unidentified competitor, Bendigo’s Janet Murray. .6) - Photo, colour, 1990, L to R: unidentified official, Le-Anne (Smallshaw) Shirley, Bendigo’s Janet Murray, unidentified competitors (x2). .7) to .8) - Photo, colour, 1990, unidentified competitors. .9) - Photo, colour, 1990, L to R: unidentified official, Mick Minchin. .10) to .11) - Photo, colour, 1990, Mick Minchin. .12) to .13) - Photo, colour, 1990, Bendigo’s Team L to R: Rene van den Tol, Wolfgang Hofbauer, Mick Minchin, Harris Lee, unidentified competitor, Allan Blake, Janet Murray. .14) & .15) - Photo, colour, 1990, presentations L to R: Rene van den Tol, unidentified competitor. .16) to .19) - Photo, colour, 1990, unidentified competitors. .20) - Photo, colour, 1990, presentations L to R: Rene van den Tol, unidentified competitor. .21) - Photo, colour, 1990, presentations L to R: Rene van den Tol, unidentified competitor, Mick Minchin. .22) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ L to R: unidentified (x2), Jeff Rudd, Rene van den Tol, Mick Minchin, Neville Stone, Steve Cooper. .23) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ, Wolfgang Hofbauer. .24) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ, Janet Murray - in black jacket. .25) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ, all unidentified. .26) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ, Neville Stone - in green t-shirt, Rene van den Tol in red track suit, remainder unidentified. .27) - Photo, colour, 1990, BBQ L to R: unidentified (x4), Janet Murray, Le-Anne (Smallshaw) Shirley, remainder unidentified. .28) & .29) - Photo, colour, 1990, views of Lake Eppalock.There are no personnel identified. ‘Inter-Area Orienteering 1990’ annotated on negative sleevesroyal australian survey corps, rasvy, army survey regiment, army svy regt, fortuna

The low rolling hills of the Kimbolton countryside consist of ancient, hard and fractured Ordovician rock up to 65 million years old, which was originally deposited deep under the sea. Rocks mainly are sandstone, mudstone, black shale and quartz conglomerates. Marine fossils can be found in the area. Around seven million years ago a basalt flow buried the original bedrock along the along the Campaspe River. Ongoing weathering, wind and water movement over the following years has produced younger clay, sand, silt and gravel deposits throughout the area. Patches of White Hills Gravel are also found in the area. Another unique geological feature of this area is the Permian Glacial Pavement rocks north and south of Eppalock and glacial sediments (such as “Dunn’s Rock” and “Kellams Rock”). During the ice age (up to 280 million years ago) large glaciers moving over the countryside, scoured out sediments, pulverized bedrock, polished and cut grooves into bedrock in the direction of ice movement. When the ice melted boulders etc where left behind in areas of entirely different rock types, such as a 100 Tonne granite block known as ‘The Stranger’ near Derrinal. Dunn's Rock (Glaciated Pavement) Eppalock - Photos of the rock and a field group collecting date with Lake Eppalock (Knowsley) in the backgroundhistory, bendigo, dunn's rock eppalock, kimbolton forest, lake eppalock, gately collection