Discussion: Canberra, capital of the English-speaking orienteering world?

Canberra, then Auckland, then Edinburgh, appear to be the English-speaking cities most fascinated by orienteering:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=orienteering

I would think that using a metric of web material per capita, Larime Wyoming would likely be at the top of the list. Of course, the ever-stealth swampfox is clever enough not to embed his whereabouts on any posts.

Country rankings.....
1. New Zealand
2. Ireland
3. Australia
4. United Kingdom
5. Norway
6. Finland
7. Italy
8. Canada
9. Sweden
10. United States

Woo hoo! Canada finally beats Sweden at something related to orienteering. (We'll ignore the "English speaking" restriction.)

It's interesting the peaks seem to match the spring and fall seasons. In summer everyone is too busy orienteering to google it. In winter everyone is hibernating.

I wonder if that has something to do with the number of news articles about Orienteering that are published during the active seasons vs. non-active seasons. I would imagine that the majority of google queries for "orienteering" are from non-orienteers looking to learn something more about the sport after reading about it somewhere.

I have a Google News alert set up to send me an email with a link to any new articles that have the word "orienteering" in them. The majority of articles that Google News picks up are published in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and the Google Trends chart seems to mirror this.

I understood Swedish English pretty well. Would I be as lucky with Canberra English? :)

Would some Aussie lubricant (beer) assist me?

Half the new Australians on Attackpoint live in Canberra - try reading their logs and see.

And this was my first 'find':
"at the chlorine bowl with jo and tomQ, did the old mona fartlek session, but got lost in conversation and had double recovery, so we got punished with a double effort, having a good chat about chewbacka, marge, and ja ja binks,"

Which beer would help me with this?

any beer, if consumed with warm vodka

Hi Ricka, since you're a Seppo, we'll do the translation for you:
chlorine bowl => AIS Pool, which is so overdosed with chlorine that TomQ (injured, along with most of our WOC team) gets asthma every time he goes pool-running there...
mona fartlek => classic fartlek session invented by Steve Moneghetti, which involves 2*2min, 4*1min, 4*30sec, 4*15sec with equal time recovery
chatting about chewbacka, marge & jaja binks => I think you had to be there for that one.

Does that help?

Further translation: Steve Moneghetti is a (former) Australian marathoner. And the AIS is the Australian Institute of Sport, the facility in Canberra that mostly hosts residential athletes in Olympic sports (and other important sports like netball), but also has facilities available to some orienteers. Seppo... maybe we'll leave that one for you to Google yourself.

Saw this comparison on nopesport.

AR vs. O Click on regions. Interesting how similar O and AR are in Canada and US but then compare with the other top 10 regions/countries.