Mount Gulaga
| Mount Gulaga | ||
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 Mount Gulaga in the background as seen from Montague Island |
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| height | 806 m | |
| location | New South Wales , Australia | |
| Coordinates | 36 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 1 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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 Mount Gulaga and in front of that the place Tilba |
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The 806 meter high Mount Gulaga (formerly called Mount Dromedary ) is one of the highest mountains on the south coast of New South Wales in Australia .
At the foot of the volcanic mountain is the small town of Tilba in the Gulaga National Park .
The mount gulaga is for the Aborigines of Yuin significant and represents the mother figure is in their mythology.
The first Europeans to sight the mountain were the men of James Cook on the HMS Endeavor on May 21, 1770. Cook named it Mount Dromedary because it reminded him of the back of a camel.
A path that was laid out by gold prospectors in 1894 leads to Mount Gulaga. A 14 km long hiking trail leads from Tilba to the summit. The volcano was formed 100 million years ago and was originally about 3000 meters high.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mt Dromedary gold . In: Minerals . New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. 1997. Archived from the original on August 19, 2006. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ↑ Warren Foster: Gulaga told by Warren Foster . In: Stories of the Dreaming . Australian Museum . 2006. Archived from the original on March 2, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ↑ Bob NSW Minister for the Environment, Debus : Formal handback of Biamanga and Gulaga national parks to Aboriginal community: Media release - Friday, February 3, 2006 . In: Media releases . Department of Environment and Climate Change . 2006. Archived from the original on March 4, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ John C. Beaglehole, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. Volume 1: The Voyage of the Endeavor 1768-1771 (= Hakluyt Society. Extra Series. 34, ZDB -ID 2681929-6 ). Edited from the original manuscripts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1968, p. 300.
- ↑ eurobodalla.com.au ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Mt Gulaga (Mt Dromedary) Walk. Gulaga National Par , accessed 11 January 2011
- ↑ ga.gov.au : Significant Rock Features , in English, accessed January 11, 2012
- ↑ tilba.com ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Tilba Online , accessed January 11, 2012
