Club Logo History

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Orienteering is a competitive or non-competitive recreational activity in which participants use a detailed map, and usually a compass, to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course through bush terrain, parkland or urban areas.

If you like a physical and mental challenge while exploring the outdoors, orienteering is the sport for you!

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See what's on by clicking on the Club Event Series buttons below or see all orienteering events by going to Eventor, the orienteering event calendar.

Classic "forest" orienteering for all in the great outdoors. Run or walk, compete against yourself or others, or a fun family day out. (Mar-Sept)

Navigate the suburbs. Run or walk to as many checkpoints as you can within a 45 minute time limit. How many points can you get? (Oct-Feb)

A great introduction to orienteering with fun courses in suburban parks & reserves. Also includes a night event. (Feb-Mar)

Navigate bush tracks on your mountain bike. Our Bike Orienteering Summer Series offers 75 minute score & line+score events. (Oct-Mar)

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from Rob Vincent

I do remember developing an original Club Logo using the "N" as the upper part of the logo, and thus with very sharp Nth top. A did talk to Alan Wright about it at the time. The Nth arrow revision with all the letters below was reconfigured later on, by Malcolm Park (who was President for awhile), and a fellow of Simmons. Alan Wright was very familiar with the design process back then.

Also worth bringing up the topic of "Local" Clubs within NOC. Yes, we use to run an Intra-Club pointscore, and had Intra-Club Relays. Each local "Club" had its own Logo, produced its own map/s and organised local events with their Logo on each Map......
**NLO = North Lakes Orienteers (Glendale, Boolaroo, Argenton, Edgeworth)

**MACRO = Merewether, Adamstown, Charlestown, Redhead Orienteers
**TKO = Toukley, Kincumber Orienteers
There was something at Singleton, Raymond Terrace etc too.

from Ian Dempsey

The first evidence of the NOC logo I have in my not entirely complete scans of early competition maps is from the 1981 version of Belford Forest . At that time it was a black and white logo. All earlier copies of local maps I have are either attributed to Newcastle Orienteering Club, or to one of the smaller club entities that Rob referred to. Another "sub-club" was "B4" - I can't recall what the acronym stood for. By the early 80s these sub-entities became unviable as stand alone club groups and were disbanded. Also attached is a 1981 map with the B4 logo and another from a few years earlier for North Lakes Orienteers. The latter's logo looks like it served as the basis for the current NOC logo. In early 1983, the NOC logo on the Brush Creek map (attached) had developed some brown colour. Later that year, the North Stockton Sand Dunes map (attached) used for the Australian Orienteering Champs, with cartography by Malcolm Park, had the logo we're familiar with today.