Mount Eccles
| Mount Eccles | ||
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| height | 178 m | |
| location | Victoria , Australia | |
| Coordinates | 38 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| rock | Lava , volcano | |
The Mount Eccles is an inactive volcano composed of lava of different volcanic eruptions is in the southwest corner of Victoria in Australia near the village of Macarthur is located.
description
The name of the mountain that the Gunditjmara Aborigines gave it is Budj Bim , which means high head . The roughly conical mountain reaches a height of 178 m.
Numerous eruptions occurred between 30,000 and 20,000 years ago. Lake Surprise is located in the crater of the volcano . The eruptions with lava flows changed the water flow and the wetlands of the landscape. The closest volcanic mountain is Mount Napier , 25 km northeast of Mount Eccles.
The mountain was named in 1836 by the explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Mount Eeles after William Eeles of the 95th Regiment of Foot , who fought with Mitchell in the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula . Due to a typo in 1845 the name changed to Eccles .
The Mount Eccles National Park with Lake Surprise covers an area of 61.2 km² and includes interesting geological phenomena such as lava flows, lava tubes , quarries , ash hills and crater lakes.
Since the landscape around the mountain was home to the oldest and largest Aboriginal aquaculture , the only stone buildings of the Australian Aborigines and an Aboriginal mission station , the Australian federal government has an area, the Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape, on the Australian National Heritage List as a historical area Designated a monument of national importance.
The dream time legends of the local Koori tell of volcanic eruptions in the past.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Eussen: Northern Extravaganza . P. 64. On the Road 64 (March 2011), accessed June 3, 2011
- ↑ environment, gov.au : Australian Heritage Database: Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape , accessed May 31, 2011
- ↑ Noel. F. Learmonth (1970): Four Towns and a Survey. Hawthorn Press: Melbourne