Musgrave Ranges
| Musgrave Ranges | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Woodroffe ( 1435 m ) | |
| location | Australia | |
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 16 ′ S , 131 ° 31 ′ E | |
The Musgrave Ranges are a mountain range in central Australia . The mountain range stretches along the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory and extends to Western Australia . It is bounded by the Great Victoria Desert in the south and the Gibson Desert in the north. The highest mountain in this mountain area, Mount Woodroffe , is the highest mountain in South Australia with a height of 1435 m .
The Musgrave Ranges form a collection of granite mountains in northwestern South Australia , which are parallel to the Northern Territory for a length of 210 kilometers. Most of the mountains reach a height of 1100 m . The mountain range was sighted by William Gosse and Ernest Giles in 1873 and named after Sir Anthony Musgrave , Lieutenant Governor of South Australia . The traditional owners , the Aborigines of the Pitjantjatjara , which the European settlers appropriated lived in this mountainous region . In the 1980s it was given back to them, who use several traditional places for initiation there .