Top End Orienteers

Lake Alex & East Point

This event uses MapRun and physical checkpoints

Please register through Eventor before attending and ensure the MapRun app is operating on your phone (one phone needed per group). The app is used for timing. Courses also have flagged checkpoints with punches, and participants will need to carry a punchcard to record checkpoint visitation.

Sunday, 26 April 2026

Explore East Point Reserve with a map! Navigate around, tracks, clearings and features of the reserve to find checkpoints and collect a score. The course is time limited to 90 minutes. Please, NO DOGS - they are not permitted at East Point reserve.
Four grades of courses are offered:
Easy
Moderate
Short Hard
Long Hard
Use your 90 minutes to visit checkpoints, visiting as many as possible. But be careful! If you are late back you will lose points.
Penalties are:
1 point per minute on the Easy course
2 points per minute on the Moderate course and Short Hard course
3 points per minute on the Long Hard course
The MapRun app will be used for timing.

Volunteers needed for this event to happen!

An organiser is needed for this course to be held.
Click here for more information about volunteering at events or to let us know you can help out.

All participants must be registered online through Orienteering Australia (Eventor) prior to this event!

More details on signing up and entering with Eventor

Payment

Cash and electronic payments accepted (Eftpos, Paywave, major credit cards & NFC smart phone).

Course Planner

Susanne Casanova

Time

Start between 7:30 am and 8:00 am

Finish by 9:30 am

Courses offered

Easy score

90.0

mins

penalty

Moderate Score

90.0

mins

penalty

Short Score

90.0

mins

penalty

Long Score

90.0

mins

penalty

BYO

Water bottle with water for on course, comfortable clothes for exercising in the heat, compass if you have one (also available for hire)

Coaching

Coaching is available between 7:30 am and 8:00 am

Afterwards

Join us for our Annual General Meeting. Pull up a chair or picnic rug and listen in to learn about the goings on of your local orienteering club - what the club has been up to over the last 12 months, what our priorities are and where we are headed into this season and beyond.

Directions

Follow East Point Rd into the reserve, drive past Lake Alexander and look for orienteering signs.