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This is a list of mountains in Australia. ... [24] (Highest mountain on the mainland) Mount Townsend, at 2,209 metres (7,247 ft ... Image Notes m ft; 1 Mount Ossa: Du ...
His study reaffirmed that the mountain named by Strzelecki as Mount Kosciuszko was indeed, as the NSW maps had always shown, Australia’s highest summit. When Macarthur’s field book of the historical journey was published in 1941 by C. Daley, [15] it further confirmed Dowd’s clarification.
All of mainland Australia's alpine areas, including its highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 metres or 7,310 feet AHD), are part of this range, called the Main Range. [4] The highest areas in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria are known as the Australian Alps.
Mount Zeil (Western Arrernte: Urlatherrke) (1,531 m or 5,023 ft) is a mountain in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Mount Zeil in the western MacDonnell Ranges. [2] [1] It is the highest peak in the Northern Territory, and the highest peak on the Australian mainland west of the Great Dividing Range. [2]
Unlike the high mountain ranges found in places like the Rockies (highest peak 4,401 m (14,439 ft)), the European Alps (highest peak 4,808 m (15,774 ft)) or the Himalayas (highest peak 8,848 m (29,029 ft)), the Australian Alps were not formed by two continental plates colliding and pushing up the Earth's rocky mantle to form jagged, rocky peaks.
The Australian Antarctic Territory is a territorial claim unrecognised by most other countries, [4] meaning that Big Ben is the highest mountain over which Australia has true sovereignty. A smaller volcanic headland, the Laurens Peninsula , extends about 10 km (6 mi) to the northwest, created by a separate volcano, Mount Dixon ; its highest ...
Mount Meharry (Panyjima: Wirlbiwirlbi) [3] is the highest mountain in Western Australia.It is located in the Hamersley Range within the southeastern part of Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region, approximately 86 kilometres (53 mi) south-southeast of Wittenoom, [4] and 87 kilometres (54 mi) east-southeast of Tom Price.
Mount Ossa is the highest mountain in Tasmania, with a summit elevation of 1,617 metres (5,305 ft) above sea level. [3] It makes up part of the Pelion Range within Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia.