Mount Arapiles
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 Mount Arapiles |
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| height | 369 m | |
| location | Victoria, Australia | |
| Coordinates | 36 ° 45 '3 " S , 141 ° 48' 59" O | |
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| rock | Quartzite | |
| First ascent | Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1836 | |
Mount Arapiles is a rock formation with a maximum height of 369 m in the Wimmera region in the west of the Australian state of Victoria .
It is part of Mount Arapiles - Tooan State Park and is located about ten kilometers west of Natimuk . The traditional name of the Aborigines is Dyurrait , also spelled Djurite .
geology
The rocks are made of quartzite and thus of metamorphic rock. Originally it was mainly quartz-rich sandstone , sedimentary rock that was deposited 420 million years ago in a gigantic river system, which also included the Grampians . Magma collected under this rock , which never reached the surface, but solidified as granite in the underground. Due to the enormous heat, the overlying sandstone partially recrystallized into quartzite. The remaining sandstone eroded, so that only the metamorphic part of the rock remained until today.
history
The cliffs of Mount Arapiles are a popular destination for rock climbers because of the wide range of climbing routes .
The first ascent by a European was in 1836 by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell . He named the mountain after a hill in Spain near which the Battle of Salamanca had taken place.
In 1963, Mount Arapiles gained attention in the modern climbing scene with a visit from Bob and Steve Craddock, during which the first routes in the area were climbed and recorded. Other climbers and thus routes followed in the years and decades to come and shaped the local climbing history. These include climbers such as Henry Barber, Kim Carrigan, Louise Shepherd, Wolfgang Güllich and Stefan Glowacz . By 1999 there were already more than 2500 routes, the most difficult of which was rated XI (UIAA scale) .
literature
- Simon Mentz, Glenn Tempest; Arapiles Selected Climbs, Open Spaces Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9752333-3-7