Mount Lindesay (Queensland)
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 Mount Lindesay |
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| height | 1177 m | |
| location | Queensland , Australia | |
| Mountains | McPherson Range | |
| Coordinates | 28 ° 20 '39 " S , 152 ° 43' 20" E | |
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| rock | Rhyolite | |
| Age of the rock | 23 million years | |
The 1177 m high Mount Lindesay is located on the border of Queensland and New South Wales , about 140 km southwest of Brisbane in Australia . The mountain is the relic of a lava flow that froze 23 million years ago.
geology
Mount Lindesay has a remarkably tiered summit reminiscent of what was left of volcanic lava flows from nearby Focal Peak , a shield volcano . In fact, Mount Lindesay and Mount Glennie, which lies further to the west, are remnants of a horizontally flowing and scorching hot rock river that was formed by the Mount Gillies Volcanics , possibly from Mount Gillies . The lava solidified to rhyolite and was weathered free over time.
location
The Mount Lindesay is located in Mount Barney National Park in Queensland and in the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales . Away from the northern slopes, the rest of the mountain is covered in dense rainforest . The summit is often covered in clouds and haze.
On the west side, the Mount Lindesay Highway runs past the mountain.
history
The traditional owners of the Mount Lindesay were the Aborigines of Githabul . In February 2007, the mountain was successfully returned to them as a native title with 1120 km² of land. The mountain is of particular ceremonial importance for them.
The first Europeans to see the mountain from afar were Patrick Logan , the Scottish botanist Charles Frazer and Allan Cunningham (botanist) , who climbed Mount Barney on an expedition in 1828 . Francis Roberts, an explorer, and his assistant Isiah Rowland were the first Europeans to traverse the mountain's area . The mountain was named by Cunningham after a British botanist named Hooker Mount Hooker . It was later renamed after Sir Patrick Lindesay , a governor of New South Wales.
Rockclimbing
The first Europeans to climb the mountain in May 1872 were Thomas de Montmorency Murray-Prior and Phillip Walter Pears . However, the Aborigines had already climbed the mountain thousands of years ago. Other European mountaineers followed and the first women on the mountain were Jean Easton and Nora Dimes from Brisbane in March 1931.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert W. Johnson, Jan Knutson, Stuart R. Taylor (Eds.): Intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1989, ISBN 0-521-38083-9 (online on Googlebooks) .
- ^ Neville Stevens, Warwick Willmott: gld.gsa.org Mount Barney, Mount Ballow. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 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. (PDF; 741 kB) at: qld.gsa.org.au in English, accessed on January 25, 2012
- ↑ More native title claims planned for southern Qld. at: abc.net.au September 12, 2007, in English, accessed January 25, 2012.
- ↑ About. at: woodenbong.org in English, accessed January 25, 2012
- ↑ Mount Lindesay. ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2010 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. at: clanlindsay.com in English, accessed January 25, 2012
- ↑ PW Pears: Mt. Lindesay. In: Brisbane Courier , November 22, 1923, p. 6, ( digitized ).
- ^ Robert Thomson: The First Ascent of Mt Lindesay. A climbing 'whodunit'. In: Queensland Review. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2001, ISSN 1321-8166 , pp. 1-20.
