Mount Woodroffe
| Mount Woodroffe | ||
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| height | 1435 m | |
| location | South Australia , Australia | |
| Mountains | Musgrave Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 26 ° 19 '8 " S , 131 ° 46' 31" E | |
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| rock | Granite , gneiss | |
| particularities | Highest mountain in South Australia | |
The Mount Woodroffe , from the Aborigines of the Pitjantjatjara Ngarutjaranya called, is the highest mountain in South Australia with 1435 m height.
location
The closest places to the mountain are Fregon (Kaltjiti) about 57 km, Amata in Musgrave Park 63 km and Mimili 123 km away.
Mount Woodroffe is located in the northwest of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges . The mountain, consisting of granite and gneiss , rises 700 to 800 above the plain. The paved Lasseter Highway leads to Mount Woodroffe , the last part of the route consists of 11 km of unpaved road.
history
The mountain, which William Gosse saw as the first European on July 20, 1873, was named by him after George Woodroffe Goyder , a senior geodesist and early explorer in South Australia and the Northern Territory .
In the 1960s, Mount Woodroffe was supposed to be the site of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), but it was installed in New South Wales and is now located as the Siding Spring Observatory alongside other astronomical observatories.
Web links
- peakclimb.com : Mount Woodroffe (Ngarutjaranya) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ bonzle.com : Map of Mount Woodroffe, South Australia , accessed October 8, 2011
- ↑ southaustraliahistory.com.au ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Flinders Ranges Research: George W. Goyder , in English, accessed October 8, 2011
- ↑ science.org.au ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 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. : Biographical Memoir of Arthur Robert Hogg, 1903-1966 , Australian Academy of Science, in English, accessed October 8, 2011
Bimberi Peak ( Australian Capital Territory ) | Mount Kosciuszko ( New South Wales ) | Mount Zeil ( Northern Territory ) | Mount Bartle Frere ( Queensland ) | Mount Woodroffe ( South Australia ) | Mount Ossa ( Tasmania ) | Mount Bogong ( Victoria ) | Mount Meharry ( Western Australia )