Mount Munro

Mount Munro
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height	715 m
location	Cape Barren Island , Tasmania
Coordinates	40 ° 22 '11 " S , 148 ° 7' 2" E Coordinates: 40 ° 22 '11 " S , 148 ° 7' 2" O
particularities	highest point on Cape Barren Island

The Mount Munro is a mountain in the northwest of the Australian state of Tasmania belonging Cape Barren Island .

It was probably named after James Munro (1779 to probably 1845), a former convict, seal hunter and sandpiper on Bass Strait . From the beginning of the 1820s he lived on the nearby Preservation Island for more than 20 years , and that with several women.

Cape Barren Island is now an Aboriginal reserve .

source

Brian Plomley, Kristen A. Henley: The Sealers of Bass Strait and the Cape Barren Island Community . Blubber Head Press, Hobart 1990, ISBN 0-908528-21-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ Island Directory Tables Islands by Altitude . In: UN System-Wide Earthwatch Web Site . United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). February 18, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

[1] Island Directory Tables Islands by Altitude . In: UN System-Wide Earthwatch Web Site . United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). February 18, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2011.