Everything about Mount Woodroffe totally explained
Mount Woodroffe is
South Australia's highest peak, at 1,435 metres.
Cultural Significance
The mountain is known to the
Pitjantjatjara Indigenous Australians as
Ngarutjaranya.
In
Indigenous Australian mythology, the mountain embodies the mythological creature
Ngintaka.
Geography
Mount Woodroffe is located in the far northwest of
South Australia, in the
Musgrave Ranges. The mountain range rises some 700-800 metres from the surrounding plains and comprises massifs of
granite and
gneiss.
History
Mount Woodroffe was named by
William Christie Gosse, who first sighted it on
20 July 1873 and is named after
George Woodroffe Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia and an early explorer of South Australia and the
Northern Territory himself.
In the 1960s Mount Woodroffe was considered as a potential site for the proposed
Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). It lost out due to its remoteness compared to
Siding Spring in
New South Wales, where the AAT sits today amongst other astronomical observatories .
Access
Access is limited as a permit is required to enter the
Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands.
Further Information
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