Mount Olympus (Tasmania)

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Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair national park, Tasmania, Australia.jpg
Highest point
Elevation1,472 m (4,829 ft)[1][2]
Prominence592 m (1,942 ft)[2]
Isolation6.35 km (3.95 mi)[2]
Coordinates42°02′24″S 146°06′36″E / 42.04000°S 146.11000°E / -42.04000; 146.11000Coordinates: 42°02′24″S 146°06′36″E / 42.04000°S 146.11000°E / -42.04000; 146.11000
Geography
Mount Olympus is located in Tasmania
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus
Location in Tasmania
LocationTasmania, Australia

Mount Olympus is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, Australia. It is the 24th highest mountain in Tasmania at 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) above sea level[2] and is situated about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) South-East of Mount Gould[2] and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Lake St. Clair.[2]

History[]

In 1835 George Frankland climbed the mountain and named it Mount Olympus.[3]

Art[]

Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent

Mount Olympus was painted by the Australian landscape painter, William Charles Piguenit. It was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1875 and was the Gallery's first oil painting acquisition,[4] "the first Australian work purchased by public subscription",[5] and the first work acquired by the gallery of an Australian-born artist.[6]

Another of Piguenit's Olympus paintings is held by the National Library of Australia.[7]

Flora[]

Nothofagus gunnii was first collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1847 from Olympus.[8] It is "Australia's only cold climate winter-deciduous tree", is found mainly in areas above 800 metres with rainfall of more than 1800mm, and is one of the plants that indicates Gondwana.[9]

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References[]

  1. ^ "LISTmap (enter "Mount Olympus")". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Mount Olympus, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  3. ^ ""A Walk in the Park": Tasmania - Leeawuleena (Lake St Clair) National Park". abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 December 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2017. He [Frankland] climbed up to the mountain on 12th February, 1835. ... So, he named Mt Olympus because he thought it truly was the place of the Gods, and he named a lot of other features using names from Greek Mythology
  4. ^ "Collection:Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent". artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  5. ^ Roslynn Haynes (2003). David S. Trigger; Gareth Griffiths (eds.). Disputed Territories: Culture and Identity in Settler Societies - From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania's Role in the Politicising of Place. Hong Kong University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-9-62209-692-9.
  6. ^ "An Artist in the Wilderness: Piguenit and the Australian Landscape". Tasmanian Geographic. Tasmanian Geographic (11). 1 January 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2017. We need to focus on Piguenit's painting of Mount Olympus because it was the first work by an Australian-born artist to be acquired, in 1875, by the Art Gallery of NSW.
  7. ^ "Mt. Olympus, Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, 1878 [picture] / W.C. Piguenit". trove.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  8. ^ "HO:HO 6492: Preserved specimen of Nothofagus gunnii recorded on 1847-01-05". biocache.ala.org.au. National Research Infrastructure for Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  9. ^ "Deciduous beech, or Fagus, Nothofagus gunnii". parks.tas.gov.au. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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