Mount Bartle Frere

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Mount Bartle Frere
Bartle Frere.jpg
height 1622  m
location Queensland , Australia
Mountains Barking Ker Range
Coordinates 17 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 145 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 17 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 145 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Bartle Frere (Queensland)
Mount Bartle Frere
rock granite
First ascent Christie Palmerston, October 26, 1886
particularities Tallest mountain in Queensland
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The Mount Bartle Frere , from the Aboriginal Chooreechillum called, reaches a height of 1,622 meters, making it the highest mountain in Queensland , Australia . It is located 51 km from Cairns in Wooroonooran National Park , southwest of Babinda at the eastern end of the Bellenden Ker Range and forms the watershed of the Russell River .

history

The mountain was named after Sir Henry Bartle Frere by the British colonial administrator and later President of the Royal Geographical Society George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1873 . Bartle Frere was the British governor of Cape Colony at the end of the Zulu War . The first European to climb the summit was Christie Palmerston in 1886.

The neighboring Mount Bellenden Ker is the second highest mountain in Queensland at 1,593 m.

vegetation

At the foot of the mountain there is a typical rainforest . Temperatures on the summit are around 10 ° C lower than on the coast.

The endemic trees Eucryphia wilkei grow at an altitude of over 1500 m , similar plants are only found in Tasmania and Chile . Other rare plants are Acronychia chooreechillum , Trochocarpa bellendenkerensis , Polyscias bellendenkerensis , Parsonsia bartlensis and Australia's only rhododendron , ( Rhododendron lochiae ). Furthermore, Eidothea zoexylocarya grow on mountain slopes and form an essential part of the vegetation there.

Plane crash

On April 21, 1942, an American B-25 Mitchell bomber , returning from a Japanese air battle from the Philippines , crashed on the mountain. All seven members of the crew were killed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rare and Endangered Plants - Wooroonooran National Park , millaamillaa.com, in English, accessed October 8, 2011
  2. pacificwrecks.com : Royce Raid , in English, accessed 8 October 2011