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confluence milestone [09-Aug-12]
By the visit of Brian Roberts and friends to 22S 18E a new milestone of the DCP was reached: Of the total indexed primary confluences now 3/8 have been visited successfully.

uruguay is complete [07-Aug-12]
Milton Teuner on a bike trip from Brazil, has visited 32S 55W, and complete Uruguay's confluences

patience really is a virtue [28-Jul-12]
It only took three years of planning, and three attempts, but finally Cameron Hart conquered the elusive 15S-128E.

Wildfire wiped the forest around CP [24-Apr-12]
Another confluence, 55°N 39°E has changed its appearance after a severe fire.

ghana is complete [26-Mar-12]
A boat trip to 5N 3W completes Ghana's land and sea Confluences.

7 confluences winter journey [25-Feb-12]
Seven short winter days for seven new confluences in the northern wild. Boris Levin's adventure starts from 65°N 34°E.

11 western us confluences [22-Feb-12]
Shawn Fleming visited 11 confluences in 8 days, starting at 33°N 107°W

12000 visits posted [15-Feb-12]
Rainer's visit to 33°S 58°W became 12000-th successful visit posted (both primary and secondary) on this site.

A tour in South America [02-Feb-12]
Rainer Mautz has just completed a sequence of 10 confluence around Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Adventure begins at 35S 59W

confluencing around parallel 50s [17-Jan-12]
Sergio Zerega and his team have completed again a sequence of 12 confluences, 8 of them unvisited so far, this time mostly on parallel 50S. The quest begins at 46S 68W

all points east [03-Dec-11]
Florian Schindler made a four day trip, going out to the Ukrainian border, taking in points in the Czech & Slovak republics, Austria & Germany. It starts here at 49N-19E

revisiting CP could be more difficult [13-Nov-11]
In Venezuela 58 confluencer left their homes for the hunt of 11N 69W but only 20 manage to conquer it successfully

Yunnan trip [30-Oct-11]
E et al. traveled through China's Yunnan visiting confluences. Start here.

China and Japan sets [13-Oct-11]
Rainer Mautz spent some time in Asia again. First in China then in Japan. The China trip starts here and the Japan trip here.

DCP 15 year anniversary celebration [05-Sep-11]
45 Venezuelan confluencer celebrate DCP 15 year anniversary with a mega visit to 10N 65W. DCP regional coordinator provided a Diploma celebration

very well travelled [29-Aug-11]
On a recent visit to the UK, Shawn Fleming who had already "been" to the Equator & International Date Line, as well as the North Pole finally managed to get "feet down" on the Prime Meridian. Just the South Pole left...

javier valles completes portugal [06-Aug-11]
With this visit to 39N-7W Javier Valles collected the full set of mainland Portugese confluence points.

joined china trip [01-Aug-11]
Peter Snow Cao, Targ Parsons and Rainer Mautz all have extensive experience confluencing in China. Now they hooked up for short (by their standards) trip.

Minas Gerais state complete [06-May-11]
This large state in Brazil (52 confluences) have been complete by Simone Pasinotto visiting alone the last confluence 16S 41W

mayotte is country 184 [03-May-11]
A visit of Fabrice Blocteur by boat to 13S 45E in the coral reefs around Mayotte added the island between Africa and Madagascar to the list of countries with visited Confluences. Simultaneously, this also completed the Confluences of this country.

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